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THE TIMES. 



AN 



EXPLANATORY TREATISE 



UPON THE 



PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE 



BY L. R. HURST 



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PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR 

1868. 






Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by 

L. R. HURST, 

in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. 



In Exchange 
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MAY 1934 



R. CULLIIT, STEREOTYPER, SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, 
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. 



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PREFACE 



There has, perhaps, been no period in the history 
of the world in which the public mind has been so 
anxiously looking to the future. Men feel every- 
where that they stand upon the eve of great events. 
Empires are rising and falling in quick succession. 
Institutions of long standing, and which were 
thought to be permanent, are giving away — while 
those in power manifest a disposition to trample 
down all legal forms and constitutional restraints, 
and to rule at the point of the bayonet. The down- 
trodden of every country are entering into secret 
leagues and forming associations to free themselves 
from tyranny and oppression. While the strongest 
monarchial governments of the Old "World are in- 
clining toward the false god of democracy, the re- 
publics of the New are manifestly tending toward 
centralization, thus showing the weakness and 
downward tendency of all human governments. 
Being unable to look into the mysteries of the future 



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through any other source, we are naturally led to in- 
vestigate the Prophecies of the Bible for a true and 
satisfactory solution of the times. That God rules 
in the kingdom of men, is incontrovertible. The 
great mysteries of the future were closed up and 
sealed until the time of the end. That the time 
of the end is upon us, I entertain but little doubt. 



INTRODUCTION 



" "When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of 
your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand." 
Luke xxi. 80. Although we are informed that the day 
and the hour no man knoweth, yet from the para- 
ble of the fig-tree we conclude that there are to be 
unmistakable signs of the approaching end. We 
learn from Daniel xii. 9, that the words are 
closed up and sealed till the time of the end, and 
then the wise and the good are to understand. 
That this mystery of the times is to be understood 
at the time of the end, is as clear to my mind as 
that the words are closed up and sealed. Since the 
Christian's faith is based upon the testimony of the 
apostles and prophets, it is but rational to suppose 
that their writings should be fully investigated, and 
that in them in due time we should find the solution 
of such knotty questions as were for the time thought 
proper to be concealed. In this view of the case, 
then, I presume one may speak or write such views 



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as he may entertain in regard to the Prophecies, 
without arrogating to himself the character of a 
prophet, or being thus signalized by others. There- 
fore, professing myself neither to be a prophet nor 
the son of a prophet, I have concluded to write a 
short treatise upon the Prophecies of the Bible, 
hoping that, should I fail to disclose their true 
meaning, I may at least throw some light upon 
the subject, and elicit criticism which may lead to 
a clearer development. 



MODE OF READING THE PROPHECIES. 



Before we approach the Prophecies, we will offer 
a few remarks in relation to the mode of reading 
them, which may be of advantage to those who wish 
to understand them. The Prophecies were gener- 
ally presented through dreams or visions to different 
persons, and through different visions to the same 
person, followed by divine interpretations. In order, 
then, to a correct understanding of them, we should 
look to them all, and place all that is said upon the 
same subject together, and consider them under 
their appropriate heads. For instance, by way of 
illustration, I refer you to the Evangelists upon the 
subject of the apostolic commission. Matthew says 
in his last chapter, "Go ye therefore, and teach all 
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," saying 
nothing about faith, repentance, or the place of be- 
ginning. Mark xvi. 15, 16, says: "And he said unto 
them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gos- 



8 MODE OF READING T II K PROPHECIES. 

pel to every creature, lie that believeth and is bap- 
tized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall 
be damned." Here Mark says nothing about repent- 
ance, the place of beginning, or the name through 
which the nations are to be discipled. Luke xxiv. 
46, 47, says : "And said unto them, Thus it is writ- 
ten, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to 
rise from the dead the third day; and that repent- 
ance and remission of sins should be preached in 
his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusa- 
lem." Here Luke gives repentance, the name, and 
the place of beginning, but says nothing about faith, 
which is the vital principle of Christianity. Now, 
which of the two would act more rational, the one 
that gives what either one says upon the subject as 
the commission, or he who gives what they all say? 
Every rational mind will decide at once that it takes 
what they all say upon the subject to constitute the 
apostolic commission, and just so in reading the 
Prophecies. And we must farther realize the tact, 
that while the inspired penmen of the olden times, 
standing upon the crumbling ruins of the old Ass} T - 
rian empire, were allowed to behold to the end, that 
those of the gospel age, standing upon central 
grounds, were allowed to see it from the beginning. 



THE TIMES. 



AN EXPLANATORY 



TREATISE UPON THE PROPHECIES OP THE BIBLE. 



CHAPTER I. 

Section 1. EzekieFs Cherubim. — Section 2. Nebuchadnezzar's 
Great Image. — Section 3. The Great Tree. — Section 4. Daniel's 
Four Beasts.— Section 5. The He-goat.— Section G. The Two 
Great Wonders. — Section 7. The Little Horn. 

Section 1. In approaching this sacred book, I 
trust it is in that spirit of reverence and humility 
that is due from every rational being to its divine 
Author. We will open by reading from the first 
chapter of Ezekiel to the sixth verse inclusive : 

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the 
fourth month, in the fifth Jay of the month, as I 
was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that 
the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 

2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the 
fifth year of king Jehoiaehin's captivity, 

3 The word of the Lord came expressly unto Eze- 
kiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the 
Chaldeans by the river Chebar ; and the hand of the 
Lord was there upon him. 

4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came 



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out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding 
itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the 
midst thereof as the color of amber out of the 
midst of the fire. 

5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness 
of four living creatures. And this was their appear- 
ance; they had the likeness of a man. 

6 And every one had four faces, and every one 
had four wings. 

We remark here, that since man has departed 
from the divine form of government, as written out 
by the finger of God, and has chosen to run his 
career under human forms of government; God, in 
order to foreshadow his destiny under these human 
forms, presents it to the Prophet Ezekiel under the 
four national flags, or faces, of four great kingdoms 
which he calls the Cherubim. We will now review 
Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation 
of it, as found in the second chapter of Daniel, 
from the thirty-first verse to the forty-fifth inclusive : 

31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great im- 
age. This great image, whose brightness was ex- 
cellent, stood before thee ; and the form thereof was 
terrible. 

32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast 
aud his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of 
brass, 

33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part 
of clay. 

34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out with- 
out hands, which smote the image upon his feet that 
ivere of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 

35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the sil- 
ver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and be- 
came like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; 



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and the wind carried them away, that no place was 
found for them ; and the stone that smote the image 
became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 

36 This is the dream ; and we will tell the in- 
terpretation thereof before the king. 

37 Thou, king, art a king of kings; for the 
God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, 
and strength and glory. 

38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, 
the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven 
hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee 
ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. 

39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom in- 
ferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, 
which shall bear rule over all the earth. 

40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as 
iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and sub- 
dueth all things; and as iron that breaketh all 
these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. 

41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part 
of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall 
be divided ; but there shall be in it of the strength 
of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed 
with miry clay. 

42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, 
and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly 
strong, and partly broken. 

43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry 
clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of 
men ; but they shall not cleave one to another, even 
as iron is not mixed with clay. 

44 And in the days of these kings shall the God 
of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be 
destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to 
other people, but it shall break in pieces and con- 
sume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 

45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was 
cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it 



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brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the sil- 
ver, and the gold ; the great God hath made known 
to the king what shall come to pass hereafter ; and 
the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof 
sure. 

Sec. 2. This great image here presented to Nebu- 
chadnezzar represents kingly power as administered 
by men under human forms of government, which 
was to be illustrated under four great kingdoms, which 
were successively to arise and to perpetuate it, until 
the Ancient of days should sit, and the kingdom be 
restored to the saints of the Most High. It seems to 
be the prevailing opinion that this image represents 
monarchy as contradistinguished from democracy, 
which is an erroneous opinion. This image un- 
doubtedly here represents kingly power as exercised 
by man under human forms of government, as in 
contradistinction to divine regal power under a 
divine forai of government. There are but two 
elementary forms of government — the one is mon- 
archy, in which the sovereignty or supreme power is 
lodged in the individual head or monarch : the other 
is democracy, in which the sovereignty is lodged in 
the people. All other forms of government are but 
corruptions of these. It is not between these two 
forms of government that God is showing a prefer- 
ence. He sees too much manism in them all. He 
is displeased with man's assumption of power under 
human forms of government, be they of whatsoever 
cast, as being antagonistic to his divine power as 
exercised under the divine form which he had writ- 
ten out with his own finger, and hence his energies 



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are bent to the utter destruction of all human forms, 
be they of whatsoever cast. 

"We see the elements of all human forms in this 
great image; the golden, the silver, the brazen, 
and the iron elements of monarchy, and the clay 
element of democracy, all brought to view. Then 
the fact that God has decreed the utter destruction 
of this image, with all of its elements, is conclusive 
evidence that it is human forms that God repudi- 
ates, and not a particular form. This great image, 
then, is to be utterly destroyed. It is first to be 
smitten by the little stone (which is Christ) upon 
its feet and toes, which are composed of iron and 
clay. That is of the two elements — monarchy and 
democracy — as I understand it. This image is not 
to be utterly destroyed at the first smiting, but will 
cripple along until the appointed time. When this 
image is utterly destroyed, the Ancient of days is to 
sit, and the kingdom is to be restored to the saints 
of the Most High. The four great kingdoms here 
pointed out by Daniel evidently mean the Assyrian, 
the Medo-Persian, the Grecian, and the Eoman, as 
respectively headed by Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Al- 
exander the Great, and Csesar. Having seen in 
the fate of this image the downfall of all human 
forms of government, we will now look to the king's 
vision of the great tree, as found in the fourth 
chapter of Daniel, to the twenty -seventh verse 
inclusive : 

1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, na- 
tions, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: 
Peace be multiplied unto you. 



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2 I thought it good to shew the signs and won- 
ders that the high God hath wrought toward me. 

3 How great are his signs ! and how mighty are 
his wonders ! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
and his dominion is from generation to generation. 

4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, 
and flourishing in my palace: 

5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the 
thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head 
troubled me. 

6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the 
wise men of Babylon before me, that they might 
make known unto me the interpretation of the 
dream. 

7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, 
the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the 
dream before them; but they did not make known 
unto me the interpretation thereof. 

8 But at last the Daniel came in before me, whose 
name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of 
my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; 
and before him I told the dream, saying, 

9 Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, be- 
cause I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in 
thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions 
of my dream that I have seen, and the interpreta- 
tion thereof. 

10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed : 
I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, 
and the height thereof was great. 

11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height 
thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof 
to the end of all the earth : 

12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit 
thereof much, and in it was meat for all : the beasts 
of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of 
the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh 
was fed of it. 



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13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, 
and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came clown 
from heaven : 

14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the 
tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and 
scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under 
it, and the fowls from his branches : 

15 Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in 
the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the 
tender grass of the field ; and let it be wet with the 
dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts 
in the grass of the earth : 

16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let 
a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven 
times pass over him. 

17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, 
and the demand by the word of the holy ones : to 
the intent that the living may know that the Most 
High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it 
to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the 
basest of men. 

18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. 
Now thou, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation 
thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my king- 
dom are not able to make known unto me the inter- 
pretation ; but thou art able, for the spirit of the 
holy gods is in thee. 

19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, 
was astonished for one hour, and his thoughts 
troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belte- 
shazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation 

thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and 
said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, 
and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. 

20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew", and was 
strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and 
the sight thereof to all the earth ; 

21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof 



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much, and in it was meat for all; under which the 
beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches 
the fowls of the heaven had their habitation; 

22 It is thou, king, that art grown and become 
strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth 
unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the 
earth. 

23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a 
hoty one coming down from heaven, and saying, 
Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the 
stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with 
a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the 
field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and 
let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till 
seven times pass over him ; 

24 This is the interpretation, king, and this is 
the decree of the Most High, which is come upon 
my lord the king : 

25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy 
dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and 
they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they 
shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven 
times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the 
Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and 
giveth it to whomsoever he will. 

26 And whereas they commanded to leave the 
stump of the tree roots ; thy kingdom shall be sure 
unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the 
heavens do rule. 

27 Wherefore, king, let my counsel be accep- 
table unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteous- 
ness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the 
poor; if it maybe a lengthening of thy tranquillity. 

Sec. 3. The facts set forth in this chapter were 
shadowed forth by the old king's tree being cut 
down, and the stump being bound with a band of 
iron and brass, until seven times passed over him. 



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Verse 26: "And whereas thev commanded to leave 
the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be 
sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known 
that the heavens do rule." From this verse w T e 
learn that the old Assyrian king was to be restored 
to his kingdom in his branch roots, but not till he 
knew that God ruled in the kingdom of men, or till 
he knew that the heavens ruled. Now, we remark 
here, first, that he was not to know that God ruled 
in the kingdom of God, but in the kingdom of men ; 
hence, then, the restoration must be before the sit- 
ting of the Ancient of days, when his kingdom is to 
begin. Secondly, we remark, that he was not only 
to know that God ruled in the kingdom of men, 
but he was also to know that the heavens ruled. 
This brings us down again to the feet and toes of 
the great image, to the end of the old king's bond- 
age. His seven times must be out before he could 
be restored or know any thing. It was from the 
fact of his restoration, in accordance with God's 
promise, that he knew that God ruled in the king- 
dom of men, since it was by decree to the intent 
that the living may know, etc. We will now invite 
the attention of the reader to Daniel's vision of the 
four beasts, Bnd of the Ancient of days, as found in 
his seventh chapter, to the twenty-seventh verse in- 
clusive: 

1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, 
Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon 
his bed ; then he wrote the dream, and told the sum 
of the matters. 

2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by 



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night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven 
strove upon the great sea. 

3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, 
diverse one from another. 

4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings ; 
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it 
was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon 
the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 

5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a 
bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had 
three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of 
it; and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much 
flesh. 

6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leop- 
ard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a 
fowl ; the beast had also four heads ; and dominion 
was given to it. 

7 After this I saw in the night visions, and be- 
hold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong 
exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it de- 
voured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue 
with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the 
beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 

8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came 
up among them another little horn, before whom 
there were three of the first horns plucked up by the 
roots ; and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the 
eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. 

9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and 
the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was 
white as snow, and the hair of his head like the 
pure wool; his throne was like the fiery flame, and 
his wheels as burning fire. 

10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from be- 
fore him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, 
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood be- 
fore him; the judgment was set, and the books were 
opened. 



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11 I beheld then, because of the voice of the great 
words which the horn spake, I beheld even till the 
beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given 
to the burning flame. 

12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had 
their dominion taken away ; yet their lives were pro- 
longed for a season and time. 

13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one 
like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, 
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought 
him near before him. 

14 And there was given him dominion, and 
glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and 
languages, should serve him: his dominion is an 
everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, 
and his kingdom that w r hich shall not be destroyed. 

15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst 
of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. 

16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, 
and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, 
and made me know the interpretation of the things. 

17 These great beasts, which are four, are four 
kings, which shall arise out of the earth. 

18 But the saints of the Most High shall take the 
kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even 
for ever and ever. 

19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth 
beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceed- 
ing dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails 
of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and 
stamped the residue with his feet; 

20 And of the ten horns th&tivere in his head, and 
of the other which came up, and before whom three 
fell ; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth 
that spake very great things, whose look was more 
stout than his fellows. 

21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with 
the saints, and prevailed against them; 



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22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment 
was given to the saints of the Most High; and the 
time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 

23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the 
fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse 
from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole 
earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in 
pieces. 

24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are 
ten kings that shall arise ; and another shall rise after 
them ; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he 
shall subdue three kings. 

25 And he shall speak great words against the 
Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High, and think to change times and laws ; 
and they shall be given into his hand until a time 
and times and the dividing of time. 

26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take 
away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it 
unto the end. 

27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the 
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, 
shall be given to the people of the saints of the 
Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting king- 
dom and all dominions shall serve and obey him. 

Sec. 4. We learn from the interpretation of the 
foregoing vision of Daniel, that there were to arise 
four universal kingdoms, which were successively to 
continue under their diiferent faces, until they w T ere 
destroyed by the little stone ; and the Ancient of 
days should sit, or until God should build up his 
kingdom upon the ruins, and the Ancient of days 
should set his judgment and open his books. The 
reader will have no trouble, upon investigation, to 
see that this sitting of the Ancient of days is at the 



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restoration of the spiritual Jew, and has no allusion 
to the general judgment after the thousand years of 
the millennium. Daniel looked to this period when 
the Ancient of days should sit, and because of the 
voice of the great words which the horn spake, he 
beheld, even till the beast was slain, and his body 
destroyed and given to the burning flame. That the 
four kingdoms here alluded to are, as I before re- 
marked, the Assyrian, the Medo-Persian, the Gre- 
cian, and the Roman, will be at once conceded; there 
is, therefore, no necessity to labor this question. 

From the interpretation of the three visions un- 
der review, we perceive that there are three grand 
periods plainly marked out by Daniel. The first 
period is to the feet and toes of the great image, 
which is composed of iron and clay — to the end of 
Nebuchadnezzar's bondage, when he was to be re- 
stored to his kingdom in his branch roots, or to 
when he should know that God ruled in the king- 
dom of men, or to when he should know that the 
heavens do rule. 

The second period is as emphatically marked as 
the first; that is, when the Ancient of days is to sit, 
when the judgment is to be set, and the books to 
be opened, or to the restoration of the spiritual Jew 
at the beginning of the millennium, when the king- 
dom is to be given to the saints. Daniel looked to 
this period, but on account of the voice of the great 
words which the horns spake, he beheld, even to the 
third period, when the body of the beast was to be 
slain and destroyed, and given to the burning flame. 
The reader will perceive that these three periods 



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are too particularly marked and described by the 
inspired writer to be overlooked. I place much im- 
portance to them, and call the special attention of 
my readers to them, as I may have occasion to re- 
vert to them again, when I enter upon the measure- 
ment of the times. We will now look to visions 
more particularly applicable to the Jewish age, as 
found in the eighth chapter of Daniel, to the four- 
teenth verse inclusive : 

1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshaz- 
zar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, 
after that which appeared unto me at the first. 

2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, 
when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, 
which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in avis- 
ion, and I was by the river of Ulai. 

3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, be- 
hold, there stood before the river a ram which had 
two horns; and the two horns were high; but one was 
higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 

4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and north- 
ward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand 
before him, neither was there any that could deliver 
out of his hand; but he did according to his will, 
and became great. 

5 And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat 
came from the west on the face of the whole earth, 
and touched not the ground; and the goat had a 
notable horn "between his eyes. 

6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, 
which I had seen standing before the river, and ran 
unto him in the fury of his power. 

7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and 
he was moved with choler against him, and smote 
the ram, and brake his two horns; and there was no 
power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast 



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him down to the ground, and stamped upon him; 
and there was none that could deliver the ram out 
of his hand. 

8 Therefore the he-goat waxed very great ; and 
when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; 
and for it came up four notable ones toward the 
four winds of heaven. 

9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, 
which waxed exceedingly great, toward the south, 
and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 

10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; 
and it cast down some of the host and of the stars 
to the ground, and stamped upon them. 

11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince 
of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken 
away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 

12 And a host was given him against the daily 
sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down 
the truth to the ground ; and it practiced and pros- 
pered. 

13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another 
saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How 
long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, 
and the transgression of desolation, to give both the 
sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 

14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and 
three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be 
cleansed. 

Sec. 5. In reviewing the preceding chapter, we find 
that Nebuchadnezzar, the head of the first of the four 
universal kingdoms, had fallen, and his government, 
as a burning mountain, had been cast into tl^e sea. 
Cyrus, who stood at the head of the second king- 
dom, had fallen. Alexander the Great had broken the 
Medo-Persian horns, and stood at the head of the 
third kingdom, which was afterward divided into 



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four kingdoms by his four successors. These four 
kingdoms all stood at the same time, and, conse- 
quently, were neither of them a universal kingdom, 
as the four represented by the four beasts of Daniel, 
Thus we see that four kingdoms, or governments, 
or heads, sprang up out of the Grecian monarchy, 
and that the kings who- headed them being so many 
horns of power, we here find four additional horns 
of power. Then, while we are dwelling upon the 
history of the Jewish age, we propose to devote a 
few thoughts to the dragon mentioned by John in 
the twelfth chapter of Revelation : 

1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; 
a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under 
her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; 

2 And she being with child cried, travailing in 
birth, and pained to be delivered. 

3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; 
and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads 
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 

4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of 
heaven, and did cast them to the earth ; and the 
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to 
be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it 
was born. 

5 And she brought forth a man-child, who was to 
rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child 
was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 

6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where 
she hath a place prepared of God, that they should 
feed her there a thousand two hundred and three- 
score days. 

7 And there was war in heaven : Michael and his 
angels fought against the dragon ; and the dragon 
fought and his angels, 



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8 And prevailed not; neither was their place 
found any more in heaven. 

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old 
serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth 
the w^hole world ; he was cast out into the earth, and 
his angels were cast out with him. 

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the king- 
dom of our God, and the power of his Christ; for 
the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which ac- 
cused them before our God day and night. 

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the 
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and 
they loved not their lives unto the death. 

12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell 
in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of 
the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, hav- 
ing great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath 
but a short time. 

13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast 
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which 
brought forth the man-cMi 

14 And to the woman were given two wings of 
a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, 
into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and 
times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 

15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water 
as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her 
to be carried away of the flood. 

16 And the earth helped thew T oman; and the 
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood 
which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 

17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 
and went to make war with the remnant of her 
seed, which keep the commandments of God, and 
have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 

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great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns. 
In pointing out this dragon, we must endeavor to 
comprehend the meaning of a head and a horn, and 
to distinguish between them. By a fread, we mean 
a government; and any government, or kingdom, 
that springs up from nonentity to power, becomes a 
head. The horns must always spring out of the 
head, and must represent a house or dynasty. We 
must not consider every incumbent of the same 
family, or house, that may, perchance, ascend the 
throne, a horn, but only those who respectively head 
their dynasties. For instance, xvhile the Assyrian, 
the Medo-Persian, the Grecian, and the four king- 
doms, that arose out of the Grecian monarchy, are, 
properly, heads, the dynasties that headed these 
governments, or that sprang up in them, are kings 
in the prophetic sense, and, consequently, so many 
horns of power. 

This much premised, we will have no trouble to 
find the heads and horns of the dragon. The Assy- 
rian, the Medo-Persian, the Grecian, and the four 
kingdoms, that arose out of the Grecian monarchy, 
make the seven heads of the dragon, while the 
kings who stood at the head of their respective 
houses in the line of these seven kingdoms, make 
the ten dragon-horns. While the dragon is properly 
the representative of the old serpent, the devil, these 
seven kingdoms and ten dynasties, that arose in the 
line of the three first of the four universal king- 
doms, are attributed to him, as his heads and horns. 
This, then, was the dragon that John saw in the 
Tewish age, and which was fought out of heaven by 



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Michael and his angels. It is sufficient to my pur- 
pose to show, here, that these ten horns may be 
found in the line of succession previous to the rise 
of the Roman Empire, which was headed by Csesar. 
Then, among these ten horns — all of w T hom, John 
says, had crowns upon their heads — among these, 
and out of one of the governments set up by Alex- 
ander's successors, there sprang up a little horn, or 
Csesar. 

Sec. 7. This little horn, then, is the eleventh horn, 
but nowhere counted as one of the dragon-horns. 
We consider it sufficient, as I before remarked, to 
our purpose, to show that the ten dragon-horns, with 
crowns upon their heads, were previous to the rise 
of the Roman Empire and to Csesar. When Daniel, 
in his 7th chapter and 19th verse, would know the 
truth of the fourth beast, he was informed that the 
fourth beast was the fourth kingdom that should 
bear sway over the earth, and that the ten horns 
were ten kings that should arise, and that another 
should arise after them, diverse from the first, who 
should subdue three kings, etc. Now, while the 
fourth beast here must of necessity mean the Roman 
government, the little horn must, and does of neces- 
sity, mean the Csesar dynasty. He spoke great 
words against the Most High, and thought to change 
times and laws, and the saints of the Most High 
were to be given into his hands for a time, 
times, and the dividing of time. Daniel, in his 8th 
chapter, in speaking of the Grecian monarch, says 
that he waxed very great, but when he was strong 
the great horn was broken, and for it came up four 



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notable horns toward the four winds of heaven, and 
out of one of these came forth a little horn, which 
waxed great, even to the prince of the host. He 
took away the daily sacrifice, and cast down the 
place of the sanctuary, etc. This little horn, then, 
while he was the eleventh horn, and sprang up 
among the ten dragon-horns, he also sprang out of 
one of the four kingdoms of Alexander's successors. 
And thus I prove beyond all rational doubt, that 
Caesar, or the Caesar dynasty, is the little horn that 
spake great words against the Most High, and pros- 
trated the Jewish temple, the place of the sanctuary. 
Josephus informs us that the Jewish temple fell 
under Roman arms, in the seventieth year of the 
Christian era, under the lead of Titus Caesar. I 
have been thus minute and particular in tracing this 
little horn, since much confusion has grown out of 
misconceptions in regard to him. We may, perhaps, 
notice this subject again, when we come to speak of 
the beast with his seven heads and ten horns, that 
took the dragon's seat. For a full and comprehen- 
sive view of the dragon, we have cited you to the 
12th chapter of Revelation. Here John saw two 
wonders in heaven — the one was the Church, under 
the figure of a woman ; the other was the old ser- 
pent, the devil, under the figure of a dragon, both 
of which were prefigured, or brought to view^, in the 
garden of Eden. The woman was clothed with the 
sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head 
a crown of twelve stars. This great dragon stood in 
his imperial robe, ready to devour the child as soon 
as it was born, but the child was caught up to God 



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and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wil- 
derness, to be fed there a thousand two hundred and 
sixty days, hid from the face of the serpent. And 
there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels 
fought, and the dragon fought and his angels, and 
prevailed not, neither was their place found any 
more in heaven. Thus we see that the old dragon 
was cast out of heaven. Now let us hear the report 
given of the matter in heaven, verses 10-17 : "And 
I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come 
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our 
God, and the power of his Christ; for the accuser 
of our brethren is cast down, which accused them 
before our God day and night. And they overcame 
him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of 
their testimony ; and they loved not their lives unto 
the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that 
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth 
and of the sea! for the devil is come clown unto 
you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that 
he hath but a short time. And when the dragon 
saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted 
the woman which brought forth the man-child. And 
to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, 
that she might fly into the wilderness, into her 
place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, 
and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And 
the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood 
after the woman, that he might cause her to be car- 
ried away of the flood. And the earth helped the 
woman; and the earth opened her mouth, and 
swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out 



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of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the 
woman, and went to make war with the remnant of 
her seed, which keep the commandments of God, 
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 

Now, from the preceding reading, we wish to 
draw a correct conclusion as to the time the Church 
went into the wilderness. The dragon stood ready, 
as you see, to devour the child as soon as it was 
born, but the child was caught up to God and to his 
throne. Christ had been crucified, his blood had 
been shed, and he had been elevated to the throne 
of his Father, made king and high-priest, not after 
the law of a carnal commandment, but after the 
power of an endless life. All this was accomplished 
before the dragon had been cast down to the earth, 
since it was through the blood of the Saviour, and 
the testimony of the brethren, that he was dethroned. 
When the child was caught up to God and to his 
throne, where was the woman? She fled into the 
wilderness into her place, to be fed there a thousand 
two hundred and three-score days, or a time, and 
times, and half a time. Christ was then crowned 
king, and the dragon was dethroned at the time that 
the Church went into the wilderness. The priest- 
hood was here changed from the tribe of Levi to 
the tribe of Judah. Christ was here made high-priest. 
The inner court was here changed from the Jews 
and given to the Gentiles. Then, you see, to measure 
the banishment of the Church into the wilderness, 
or to measure the period that the inner court was 
to be administered by the Gentiles, we must begin 
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Having pointed you out the dragon, and traced 
him down through the first three universal king- 
doms of the Jewish age, and until he was de- 
throned, we will next look to the rise of the beast 
and the false prophet, as found in the thirteenth 
chapter of Revelation. 



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CHAPTER II. 

Section 1. The Rise of the Beast. — Section 2. The Rise of the 
False Prophet. — Section 3. The Rise of the Image-beast with 
Seven Heads and Ten Image-horns. — Section 4. The Mystic 
Woman and the Great City. 

1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a 
beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and 
ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon 
his heads the name of blasphemy. 

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leop- 
ard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his 
mouth as the mouth of a Jion ; and the dragon gave 
him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded 
to death ; and his deadly wound was healed ; and 
all the world wondered after the beast. 

4 And they worshiped the dragon which gave 
power unto the beast; and they worshiped the 
beast, saying, "Who is like unto the beast ? who is 
able to make war with him ? 

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speak- 
ing great things and blasphemies ; and power was 
given unto him to continue forty and two months. 

6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against 
God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, 
and them that dwell in heaven. 

7 And it was given unto him to make war with 
the saints, and to overcome them ; and power was 



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given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and na- 
tions. 

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship 
him, whose names are not written in the book of 
life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the 
world. 

9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. 

10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into 
captivity; he that killeth with the sword must be 
killed with the sword. Here is the patience and 
the faith of the saints. 

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of 
the earth ; and he had two horns like a lamb, and 
he spake as a dragon. 

12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first 
beast before him, and causeth the earth and them 
which dwell therein to worship the first beast, 
whose deadly w T ound was healed. 

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he mak- 
eth fire come down from heaven on the earth in the 
sight of men, 

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth 
by the means of those miracles which he had power 
to do in the sight of the beast ; saying to them that 
dwell on the earth, that they should make an image 
to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, 
and did live. 

15 And he had power to give life unto the image 
of the beast, that the image of the beast should 
both speak, and cause that as many as would not 
worship the image of the beast should be killed. 

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich 
and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their 
right hand, or in their foreheads ; 

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he 
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the 
number of his name. 

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath under- 



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standing count the number of the beast ; for it is 
the number of a man ; and his number is Six hun- 
dred three-score and six. 

Section 1. In the foregoing chapter we have a 
succinct account of the rise of the beast, and the 
rise of the false prophet, coeval with and in sight of 
each other, the one having arisen out of the sea, or 
the multitude that were embraced under the Roman 
flag, and the other out of the earth. It now be- 
comes a question who this beast is. We learn from 
the last of the 13th chapter of Revelation that the 
false prophet caused "all, both small and great, rich 
and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their 
right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man 
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the 
name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here 
is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count 
the number of the beast ; for it is the number of a 
man ; and his number is Six hundred three-score 
and six." Then let us look to the name of Caesar, 
and count the number of years that the Caesars 
headed the Roman Empire. Gibbon, in his history 
of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, says 
that the Caesar dynasty remained in power or occu- 
pied the throne until about the middle of the sixth 
century of the Christian era, which I take to be about 
six hundred and sixty-six years. Then Caesar is be- 
yond a reasonable doubt the beast, or little horn, 
that magnified him'self to the prince of the host, 
and cast down the place of the sanctuary, which we 
have already shown you fell under Titus in the sev- 
entieth year of the Christian era. This beast, then, 



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that we prove to be Caesar, had seven heads and ten 
horns. We will now attempt to point you out the 
seven heads and ten horns of the beast. 

This is a place where all writers upon the subject 
fail. Most writers think that these heads and horns 
of the beast are to be found in the line descending 
from the Caesars in the Roman Empire, which leads 
them into gross error. We must bear in mind that 
the dragon gave him his power and his seat. Now 
for the dragon to give the beast one head or horn 
more or less, or the same number, with greater or 
less power than he had himself, would not be to give 
him his power, and the dragon could not give him 
heads or horns which he did not possess himself. It 
follows, then, that the beast, must have the identical 
heads and horns of the dragon. John describes this 
beast as having seven heads, and ten horns, and ten 
crowns upon their heads, and upon the seven heads 
were written the name of blasphemy. Now, when 
we look back behind the beast under the three first 
great kingdoms for these heads and horns, every 
thing becomes plain. "When it is said that these 
heads had written upon them the name of blas- 
phemy, it is meant that they tried to make them- 
selves equal with God. It is a notorious fact that 
these early monarchs, in many instances, required 
divine honors to be paid to them. When it is said 
that three fell before him, it is meant the three uni- 
versal kingdoms which had preceded him. John 
saw one of these heads as it were wounded to death, 
and his deadly wound was healed, or in other words, 
he was wounded with the sword, and did live. This 



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was the kingdom of Assyria, or Nebuchadnezzar, 
who had been wounded by the sword of Cyrus, but 
yet lived in the stump-roots of the tree, or which 
had been healed by the promise of a restoration in 
his branch-roots. But for the satisfaction of those 
who would differ with me here, and still contend 
that the beast, or the little horn, was the eleventh, 
counting down through the line of Roman princes, 
let us offer a few arguments. We must first perceive 
that there arose no new horn of power in the Roman 
Empire for over six hundred } 7 ears, while the Caesars 
occupied the throne. Then, to make the beast or 
little horn the eleventh in the Roman Empire, he 
could not have sprang up among the ten and out of 
one of the four governments set up by Alexander's 
successors, as Daniel was informed by Gabriel. The 
dragon gave the beast his power and his seat, and it 
is irrational to suppose that the dragon would, after 
his fall from power, and after the lapse of six hun- 
dred years, be able to transfer his power and his 
seat. Then that the beast was exercising the power 
and occupying the seat of the dragon, with his 
identical heads and horns, is, to my mind, clear. 

"What are the circumstances of the case? The 
Messiah had ascended to God and to his throne. He 
had been crowned king of the universe — all power 
had been given into his hands. In his name and 
through his blood the dragon had been dethroned ; 
the Church had taken her wings of a great eagle, 
and flew into the wilderness ; the dragon was wroth 
With her, and went to make war with the remnant 
of her seed. Notwithstanding he was stripped of his 



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royal robes, and cast out of the government, Ceesar 
had arose to power, and here he makes a league 
with the beast : he transfers his power and his seat 
to the beast, with all of his heads and horns, just as 
they were, and the beast now undertakes to run the 
machine, so to speak, with all of its fixtures. And 
power was given him to continue, or to domineer, of 
the seeds of the Church for forty and two months. 
This counted at thirty days to the month, make a thou- 
sand two hundred and three-score days, and is equiv- 
alent to the expression, time, times, and half a time. 
Now we can easily perceive that, at the exact time 
that the Church emerges from the wilderness, able 
to face the serpent, that this Csesar dynasty, with its 
false Church organization, which is written in the 
blood of the martyrs, must lose all its power for 
harm to the true Church, since the commencement 
of the Caesar dynasty and power was coeval with 
the flight of the Church into the wilderness. 

Sec. 2. We w r ill now look to the rise of the false 
prophet, 11th verse. We note, first, that the false 
prophet did not rise out of the sea as the beast did, 
but he arose out of the earth. Next we note that he 
had two horns, not of a lamb, but like a lamb. These 
two horns, then, evidently represent civil and eccle- 
siastic power. We next note that he spake as a 
dragon, and exercised all the power of the first beast 
before him. He also did wonders : made fire come 
down from heaven, and by his miracles in the sight 
of men, deceived them that dwelt upon the earth, 
saying to them that they should make an image to 
the beast that had the wound by the sword, and did 



38 THE TIMES. 

live ; that is, make an image to Nebuchadnezzar's 
government. "Who, then, is this false prophet ? He 
is beyond doubt the God of the earth before whom 
the two prophets or witnesses of God — the two 
books, Moses and Christ — stood through the dark 
ages, bearing their testimony. This false prophet, 
then, or this God of the earth, was to superinduce 
an image to be reared to the old Assyrian govern- 
ment, or to Nebuchadnezzar. What, then, is this 
image? It could not be a true Church organization, 
since the old Assyrian king had no true Church to 
rear an image to. It must, then, be the great polit- 
ico-ecclesiastic organization set up by the Caesars 
under the assumed name of the Church. This, 
brings us, then, to the investigation of this image, in 
view of which we cite you to the 17th chapter of 
Eevelation : 

1 And there came one of the seven angels which 
had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto 
me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judg- 
ment of the great whore that sitteth upon many 
waters ; 

2 "With whom the kings of the earth have com- 
mitted fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth 
have been made drunk with the wine of her forni- 
cation. 

3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the 
wilderness; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet- 
colored beast, full of names of plasphemy, having 
seven heads and ten horns. 

4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and 
scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious 
stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand 
full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication ; 



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5 And upon her forehead ivas a name written, 
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MO- 
THER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS 
OF THE EARTH. 

6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood 
of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of 
Jesus; and when I saw her, I wondered with great 
admiration. 

•7 And the angel said unto me, "Wherefore didst 
thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the 
woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which 
hath the seven heads and ten horns. 

8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and 
shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into 
perdition ; and they that dwell on the earth shall 
wonder, whose names were not written in the book 
of life from the foundation of the world, when they 
behold the beast that was, and Is not, and yet is. 

9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The 
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the 
woman sitteth. 

10 And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and 
one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he 
cometh, he must continue a short space. 

11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the 
eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. 

12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten 
kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but 
receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 

13 These have one mind, and shall give their 
power and strength unto the beast. 

14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the 
Lamb shall overcome them ; for he is Lord of lords, 
and King of kings ; and they that are with him are 
called, and chosen, and faithful. 

15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou 
sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and 
multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 



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16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon 
the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make 
her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and 
burn her with fire. 

17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his 
will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the 
beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 

18 And the woman which thou sawest is that 
great city, which reigneth over the kings of the 
earth. 

Sec. 3. After John had, in the sixteenth chapter, 
described the great Armageddon battle, as he calls 
it, in which the great city is to be divided into three 
parts, and the cities of the nations are to fall, which 
Ezekiel calls the battle of Gog, to be fought in the 
mountains of Israel, *in the land of unwalled villages, 
he writes thus: "And there came one of the 
seven angels, which had the seven vials, and talked 
with me, saying unto me, Come hither, I will shew 
unto thee the great harlot, or city, which sitteth 
upon many waters." He describes the many waters 
in the same chapter to mean peoples, nations, tongues, 
languages, etc. Verse 16th: "And the angel said 
unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel ? I will tell 
thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast 
that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and 
ten horns.' ' Then the angel goes on here to de- 
scribe and to identify this image-beast, with his 
seven image-heads and ten image-horns. He says, 
"The beast which thou sawest, was and is not, and 
shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into 
perdition. " This, then, is the image-beast; that 
is, the image to the old Assyrian king, who was in 



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his tree, but was not in his stump, and yet was in 
his branch- roots ; or, in other words, this image- 
beast is the old king restored to his kingdom in his 
branch-roots, and he must arise at the end of his 
seven times, according to God's promise. We must 
now look for the seven image-heads and ten image- 
horns. 

It might be supposed that we would allow this 
image-beast the same heads and horns of the old 
dragon, or the beast ; but as this is but the image, 
and not the identical thing, we must allow him sim- 
ilar heads and horns, and not the identical ones. If 
the husband stands before his wife, she recognizes 
his identity; but she only claims that in her son she 
recognizes similar features ; she claims that the son 
is the very image of his father. Then, we must here 
make the proper distinction between identity and 
similarity. We will, then, allow this image-beast, 
who is but the branch-root of the old king, similar 
heads and horns, and not the identical ones. But we 
will let the angel go on and tell — verses 9-11: 
"And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The 
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the 
woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five 
are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; 
and when he cometh, he must continue a short 
space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he 
is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into 
perdition." 

Sec. 4. Now, that we may have clear views in re- 
lation to this mystic woman, and the great city to 
which she answereth, we will remark that the true 



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Church is represented by a chaste wife, and answer- 
eth to the city of Jerusalem in Palestine, and through 
it points to the New Jerusalem, above which is the 
mother of us all. While this mystic woman, or 
harlot, is made to represent the religion of the false 
prophet, and answereth to the great city here alluded 
to, and through it points to Babylon of old, and it 
was in this light of the matter that God calls his 
people to come out of Babylon, or out of the mists 
of the old Church, that they may not participate in 
her plagues. Since, then, the inconstant woman, or 
harlot, here mentioned, must represent the Church 
organization of the false prophet, in contradistinc- 
tion to the true Church, the seven heads, or moun- 
tains, upon which she sitteth, must, of necessity, 
mean the seven Catholic governments that arose 
upon the fall of the Eoman Empire. I deem it 
scarcely necessary to mention that a kingdom, or 
government, is generally represented by a mountain 
in prophetic writings. If a religious government is 
meant, it is called a holy mountain. After naming 
these image-heads, upon which the woman sitteth, 
he says: "And there are seven kings: five are fallen, 
and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when 
he cometh, he must continue a short space.' ' Now 
it will be remembered that during the long sway of 
the Csesar dynasty at the head of the Koman Em- 
pire, that this false Church organization was thor- 
oughly ingrafted into tl^eir body politic. "When 
that great empire fell, it split up into six fragments, 
or governments, each of which still retained this 
organization. Every one of these governments have 



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had their dynasties changed but the House of Haps- 
burg. Thus you see five of the kings at the head 
of these image-heads, upon which the woman sit- 
teth, are fallen, while the House of Hapsburg yet re- 
mains. That the House of Hapsburg is in a direct 
line of descent from the Csesars, will not be contro- 
verted. Headley, in his " Napoleon and his Mar- 
shals/ ' says when Napoleon embraced Marie Louise, 
that "he embraced the daughter of the Caesars." 
While, then, this image-beast must come from the 
line of the Caesars, he must be the eighth head in 
the Roman Empire, counting from the first monarch 
who reigned previous to the rise of this Church or- 
ganization, and yet he must be of the seven Catholic 
heads, he being one himself. Now, I ask, where can 
we find in sacred or profane history the same ex- 
actness and clearness to identify any one that we 
find here in John's description of the image-beast ? 
Now, allow five of these kings to have fallen, and 
the House of Hapsburg to be the sixth, and Maxi- 
milian, being a Catholic head, to be the seventh, is 
he not the eighth, when we count the first Caesar, 
and of the seven ? Then, true to the letter, he built 
the tabernacle of his palace in the glorious holy 
mountain upon the American continent, in the land 
of unwalled villages, where the spiritual Jew is to be 
restored. And truly his time was short: he continued 
but a short space. He was then the feet and toes 
of the great image, whose government was mixed 
with iron and clay, which was divided, partly strong, 
and partly broken, and upon which the little stone 
was to smite. While this harlot, or inconstant 



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woman, strictly means the religion of the false 
prophet, or represents it, the great city means, or 
represents, the political fabric, or government, of a 
particular nation. The cities of the nations, in like 
manner, represent the national governments. When 
the great city is said to be divided into three parts, 
I understand it to mean that the government is to 
be divided into three governments ; and when the 
cities of the nations are said to fall, I understand it 
to mean that the rotten systems of human govern- 
ment are to crumble and fall. This mystic woman, 
then, and the great city to which she answereth, 
represent the two horns of the false prophet — the 
ecclesiastic and the civil power. These two powers, 
when united, are properly represented by the term 
Babylon, which is a word of confusion. When the 
prophet speaks of the downfall of Babylon, he evi- 
dently means the downfall of human forms of gov- 
ernment — both political and ecclesiastic — which 
must take place before the Ancient of days will set 
up his kingdom or open his books and set his judg- 
ment. This mystic woman, then, and the great city 
to which she answereth, sets upon these image- 
heads — the one by having her Church organization 
ingrafted into their body politic, and the other by 
her diplomacy, and by her trade and commerce with 
them, from which source she derives her wealth and 
greatness. Having seen the restoration of Nebu- 
chadnezzar, in the person of Maximilian, and the 
seven image-heads in the seven fragments of the 
Roman Empire, we will now look for the ten image- 
horns. I am aware that I stand here upon delicate 



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ground. I am sure, however, that I would not, if 
I could, disturb the peace and quiet of our beloved 
country. Prophecy must have some meaning, and 
God's vengeance upon man, for his wickedness and 
disobedience, must light somewhere. My interpre- 
tation is but the views of a single mortal, and could 
not alter the purposes of God, whether they be true 
or false. Then, to proceed, verse 12th: "And the 
ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which 
have received no kingdom as yet; but receive 
power as kings one hour with the beast/' In the 
first place, we will note here that these image-horns 
were to make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb 
was to overcome them. In the second place, they 
were to receive power as kings one hour w^ith the 
beast. They were to hate the harlot, or the great 
city, to eat her flesh, and to burn her down with 
fire. This woman is said to be the great city that 
ruleth over the kings of the earth. Allowing this 
great city to be the great emporium of the nation, 
and a type of the government, may not these image- 
horns mean the ten Southern States ? May they not 
properly be compared to ten kings, as possessing in 
their individual capacity of States, or State Govern- 
ments, power, and yet being without a common 
government or kingdom as yet ? These kings, as 
will be observed, are both without crowns or king- 
dom as yet. They differ, then, in these particulars, 
from the dragon-heads and horns, since they both 
had crowns upon their heads and a kingdom. It 
must be remembered, in the meantime, that these 
horns, under a different figure, are made to repre- 



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sent the ten toes upon the feet of the great image, 
which possessed the clay element of democracy. 
Now, where upon the globe can be found ten kings 
without crowns or kingdom, and their governments 
possessing the clay element of democracy, unless 
we look to the republics of America? But in what way 
did they make war with the Lamb ? The Southern 
States held several millions of slaves in a state of 
bondage, living in a state of ignorance, and in open 
violation of the institution of marriage. God evi- 
dently intended to liberate them, or to change their 
mode of servitude, before the millennial age. These 
States engaged in the late American war to sustain 
the institution of slavery, as is abundantly proven 
from the clause in the Confederate Constitution upon 
the status of slavery. These States, after a sanguine 
and bloody conflict of about five years, surrendered 
to the superior force of the United States. They 
were overcome, or, as General Grant would say, 
they were overpowered. That the South was not 
aiming to destroy the institution of slavery, is here 
abundantly proven. That the United States did 
not enter into the late war to overthrow the institu- 
tion, is manifest from the early proclamations of the 
Chief Magistrate, and from later offers of peace, 
upon conditions allowing the South to retain their 
property in slaves. The very fact, then, of its over- 
throw at the close of the war, contrary to the first 
intentions of either party, proves the interposition 
of an overruling Providence, to whose mandates 
we should all cheerfully submit. I may say that the 
South has in truth bitterly repented of her folly, 



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and is to-day giving glory to God in her 'patient ac- 
quiescence. But, to continue with our image-horns: 
It is said that there are eleven of the Southern 
States. Admit this to be true : while there was but 
ten dragon-horns, there sprang up among them an- 
other little horn, and it takes this little horn of 
Texas to complete the image. And since the elev- 
enth, or little horn, in the great line of empire be- 
came great, Texas may yet become great by becom- 
ing the seat of empire, when the great city goes 
down as old Babylon went. The new city which is 
described by Ezekiel in his 39th chapter, may spring 
up somewhere upon the Gulf contiguous to the 
mouth of the great Mississippi Elver. 

Having pointed you out the dragon with his 
seven heads and ten horns under the Jewish age, 
and having pointed out the beast who occupied his 
seat and exercised his power, and having traced him 
and the false prophet to the restoration of Nebu- 
chadnezzar, in the person of Maximilian in the 
Mexican Empire, with his seven image-heads and 
ten image-horns, we will now turn to the seven seals, 
and open them in order. 



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CHAPTER III. 

Section 1. John's View of the Cherubim. — Section 2. The Lion 
of the Tribe of Judah prevails to open the Book and to loose 
the Seven Seals thereof. — Section 3. The opening of the £>even 
Seals in order. 

Section 1. Introductory to the opening of the 
seven seals, we invite the reader to an extract from 
the 1st to the 7th verses inclusive, of the 4th chap- 
ter of Revelation : 

1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was 
opened in heaven ; and the first voice which I heard 
was as it were of a trumpet talking with me ; which 
said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things 
which must be hereafter. 

2 And immediately I was in the Spirit; and, be- 
hold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the 
throne. 

3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jas- 
per and a sardine stone ; and there was a rainbow 
round about the throne, in sight like unto an em- 
erald. 

4 And round about the throne were four-and- 
twenty seats ; and upon the seats I saw four-and- 
twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment ; and 
they had on their heads crowns of gold. 

5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and 
thunderings and voices ; and there were seven lamps 



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of fire burning before the throne, which are the 
seven spirits of God. 

6 And before the throne there ivas a sea of glass 
like unto crystal ; and in the midst of the throne, 
and round about the throne, were four beasts full of 
eyes before and behind. 

7 And the first beast teas like a lion, and the 
second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a 
face as a man, and the fourth beast teas like a flying 
eagle. 

Here we discover that a door was opened to John 
in heaven, and he was presented with a view of the 
four beasts and the four-and-twenty elders. These 
elders were, doubtless, the elders of the twelve 
tribes of Israel, and the twelve apostles of Jesus 
Christ. The sight of the four beasts was evidently 
a glimpse of the Cherubim, which had been pre- 
sented to Ezekiel in the whirlwind at the beginning. 
The number of the beasts are the same, and the 
number and description of their faces are the same, 
and must, unquestionably, allude to the four great 
kingdoms mentioned by Daniel. It becomes here a 
question as to what heaven is meant into which a 
door was opened to John. To contemplate it as the 
third heaven, or ultimate kingdom of glory, would 
carry with it the absurd idea that the dragon, or 
four beasts, had an abode there, into which God 
would not be likely to admit such an amount of 
carnality. Since, then, we read of three heavens, 
viz., the Jewish heaven, out of which the dragon 
was fought, and the restored Jewish heaven, or mil- 
lennial age, and the third, or heaven of heavens, or 
the ultimate kingdom of ejlory, we come to the con- 



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elusion that this door was opened to John into the 
Jewish age ; and that his view was retrospective, we 
will now cite you to the 5th and 6th chapters of 
Revelation : 

chapter v. 

1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on 
the throne a book written within and on the back 
side, sealed with seven seals. 

2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a 
loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to 
loose the seals thereof? 

3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither 
under the earth, was able to open the book, neither 
to look thereon. 

4 And I wept much, because no man was found 
worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look 
thereon. 

5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep 
not ; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the 
Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, 
and to loose the seven seals thereof. 

6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the 
throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of 
the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having 
seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven 
spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 

7 And he came and took the book out of the 
right hand of him that sat upon the throne. 

8 And when he had taken the book, the four 
beasts and four-a?2<£-twenty elders fell down before 
the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and 
golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of 
saints. 

9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art 
worthy to take the book, and to open the seals 
thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us 



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to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and 
tongue, and people, and nation ; 

10 And hast made us unto our God kings and 
priests; and we shall reign on the earth. 

11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many 
angels round about the throne, and the beasts, and 
the elders ; and the number of them was ten thou- 
sand times ten thousand, and thousands of thou- 
sands ; 

12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb 
that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wis- 
dom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and bless- 
ing- 

13 And every creature which is in heaven, and 

on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are 
in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, 
Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto 
him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb 
for ever and ever. 

14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the 
four-awd-twenty elders fell down and worshiped him 
that liveth for ever and ever. 

CHAPTER VI. 

1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the 
seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, 
one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 

2 And I saw, and behold a white horse ; and he 
that sat on him had a bow ; and a crown was given 
unto him ; and he went forth conquering, and to 
conquer. 

3 And when he had opened the second seal, I 
heard the second beast say, Come and see. 

4 And there went out another horse that was red; 
and power was given to him that sat thereon to take 
peace from the earth, and that they should kill one 
another ; and there was given unto him a great 
sword. 



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5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard 
the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, 
and lo a black horse ; and he that sat on him had a 
pair of balances in his hand. 

6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four 
beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and 
three measures of barley for a penny ; and see thou 
hurt not the oil and the wine. 

7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I 
heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and 
see. 

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse ; and his 
name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed 
with him. And power was given unto them over 
the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and 
with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of 
the earth. 

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw 
under the altar the souls of them that were slain for 
the word of God, and for the testimony which they 
held; 

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How 
long, Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge 
and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the 
earth ? 

11 And white robes were given unto every one 
of them ; and it was said unto them, that they 
should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow- 
servants also and their brethren, that should be 
killed as they were, should be fulfilled. 

12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth 
seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the 
sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the 
moon became as blood ; 

13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, 
even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when 
she is shaken of a mighty wind ; 

14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it 



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is rolled together ; and every mountain and island 
were moved out of their places. 

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great 
men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and 
the mighty men, and every bond man, and every 
free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the 
rocks of the mountains ; 

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on 
us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on 
the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb ; 

17 For the great day of his wrath is come ; and 
who shall be able to stand ? 

Sec. 2. John "saw in the right hand of him that 
sat on the throne a book written within and on the 
back side, sealed with seven seals. And no man in 
heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was 
able to open the book, neither to look thereon.' ' 
John wept. But one of the elders told him to weep 
not. "Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the 
Boot of David, hath prevailed to open the book, 
and to loose the seven seals thereof," etc. It must 
be remembered, here, that these four beasts were 
attempting to exercise their regal power, under 
human forms of government, in the face of a model 
form, which God had written out with his own fin- 
ger, and which he had exhibited to the world under 
the administration of the elders of Israel. 

Sec. 3. Then, upon opening the first four seals, 
we have brought to light the four great means which 
God brings to bear upon the nations, as exemplified 
under the four great kingdoms pointed out by 
Daniel. The first of these is the word of God, 
represented by a man riding a white horse, a crown 



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upon his head denoting his Divine authority, and a 
bow in his hand, from which he propelled arrows of 
conviction, plainly representing that the man of God 
deals with the minds and consciences of men. But, 
if we fail to heed and obey the will of God, when 
thus addressed to us, he still has another means. 
The second means is the sword. This was repre- 
sented by a rider, upon a red horse, and a great 
sword in his hand. Then famine, pestilence, and 
death, etc. "When the first seal was opened, why 
should the first beast cry out in thunder tones, 
Come and see ? Because he had felt the power of 
God's word, he had seen his throne shaken to its cen- 
ter, and his government, as a burning mountain, 
cast into the sea. His tree had been cut down, and 
the stump bound with a band of iron and brass, 
amid the beasts of the field, to remain there seven 
times, until his hairs became as eagle's feathers, and 
his nails as bird's claws. "Well might he point to the 
great power of God, as the white horse went out. 
Cyrus had drenched the battle-fields of Asia in hu- 
man gore, and well might he point to the sword. 
Alexander the Great had extended his conquests to 
the ends of the earth, and had made the waters 
black with famine. Csesar, who stood upon the bat- 
tle-fields of fallen empires, and who was piling the 
dead bodies of the martyrs around the horns of the 
altar, might well point to pestilence and death. And 
when he had opened the fifth seal, John saw beneath 
the horns of the altar the souls of the martyrs who 
had been slain for the word of God, and for their 
testimony, crying to God for vengeance. And when 



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he had opened the sixth seal, John beheld, and lo 
there was a great earthquake, etc. This great earth- 
quake represents a great war, or revolution, and 
the point I am particular to note here is, that the 
opening of the sixth seal brought John's view to the 
fall of Jerusalem, when the Jewish temple fell, and 
their nationality ceased when the outer court fell 
into the hands of the Gentiles. With the foregoing 
remarks relative to the sixth seal, we will leave it 
for farther comment when we come to the investi- 
gation of the three woes. 

Revelation viii. 1 : "And when he had opened 
the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about 
the space of half an hour." that I had a tongue 
and language to describe the solemnity of this Sab- 
bath-day's silence, after the coronation of the Mes- 
siah ! "What had happened ? Jesus Christ, the Son 
of the living God, had been slain ; he had been 
hung by nails, and crucified between two thieves. 
He was placed by Joseph in his new tomb, which he 
had hewn out in the rock, with a great stone rolled 
to the door of the sepulcher. The chief priests and 
Pharisees sealed the stone, and placed a watch. 
But in spite of all the power of the priests and 
Pharisees, with the aid of the authorities of the 
Eoman Government, he arose from the grave ; he 
ascended to his Father, and was crowned King of 
the Universe; he was made High-priest, not after 
the power of a carnal commandment, but after the 
powers of an endless life ; he had conquered death, 
hell, and the grave ; he had brought life and immor- 
tality to light through the gospel ; pagan temples 



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fell, and a new era commenced. "What a solemn 
silence ! Here sat the venerable old Assyrian king, 
the height of whose palace had looked down upon 
the domes of ancient Babylon. There sat Cyrus, 
and Alexander the Great, whose kingdoms had 
arose and fallen in turn. And here, Csesar, flushed 
with the victories of the past, and eagerly looking 
to the glories of the future. And, yet, the venerable 
fathers of the Jewish age — the elders of the twelve 
tribes of Israel, and the twelve apostles of Jesus 
Christ, who were so many gems in the diadem of 
the Christian Church — all in profound silence. Ho- 
sanna to God and to the Lamb ! Jesus was crowned 
King of kings and Lord of lords. Ko wonder that 
this silence was broken by the harps of the four 
beasts, and of the four-and-twenty elders, and by 
the voice of ten thousand times ten thousand, and 
thousands of thousands of angels, in chanting a 
new song to his praise, and that they should east 
their glittering crowns at his feet, and that they 
should fall down and worship him. Upon opening 
the seventh seal, seven angels, with seven trumpets, 
and seven vials of God's wrath, was brought to view. 
We propose in our next chapter to consider these 
seven sounds of the trumpets, and the seven vials 
of wrath, and also the three woes — all under one 
head. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Section 1. The seven angels with seven vials of God's wrath. — 
Section 2. The three woes. — Section 3. The sixth sound of the 
trumpet, or late war. — Section 4. The third woe. — Section 5. 
The Armageddon battle. 

Section 1. We now proceed to consider the seven 
angels with their seven trumpets, and their seven 
vials of God's wrath, and also the three woes. We 
have no evidence, as far as my observation goes, to 
prove that there were more angels employed than 
the seven represented by the seven stars in the first 
chapter of Kevelation. Then, if we will consider 
these seven angels as each having in one hand a 
trumpet, and in the other hand a vial of God's 
wrath, and the seven thunders to mean the audible 
reports of the seven great wars, each one brought 
about at the tocsin sound of a trumpet, and each 
vial of wrath to mean the scourges of the war, 
and corresponding with the sounds in number, we 
will be more likely to understand them. Then, we 
may look upon these seven great wars as so many 
blazed trees along the pathway of these four uni- 
versal kingdoms, mentioned by the prophets, leading 
us infallibly to their end. Whenever we can to a 
certainty arrive at the seventh of these great wars, 
which is to be fought under the seventh sound, we 



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will stand exactly upon the ground where human 
forms of government must crumble, and the Ancient 
of days will open his books and set his judgment. 
This seventh war may be considered the Sabbath of 
wars, and hence it is called the battle of the great 
day of God Almighty. Four of these great wars 
were fought under the reign of the dragon in the 
Jewish age. The first was Nebuchadnezzar against 
the Jews ; this vial of wrath was poured out upon 
the Jews for worshiping a certain golden image he 
had set up, and a grievous sore fell upon the Jews — 
they were sent into a seventy years' captivity. The 
second of these wars was the war of Cyrus upon 
the dominions of Assyria, and a great mountain, 
burning with fire, was cast into the sea, or Nebu- 
chadnezzar's government was swallowed up. Th& 
third was Alexander the Great against the Medo-^ 
Persian monarchy. About that time a great star fell 
from heaven. I take this star here to mean Daniel. 
In the last of the 6th chapter of Daniel, we are in- 
formed that he prospered in the reign of Darius and 
Cyrus. Daniel must then have been in his dotage. 
Daniel's prophecies, as John's, were sweet to the 
taste, but bitter in fulfillment, and hence they were 
said to make the waters bitter. The fourth war I 
take to be the war made upon the Jews by Antiochus 
on his return from Egypt. I have been brief here in 
my mention of these first four wars, since my main 
object was to bring you down to the fifth sound, 
which is the first woe. "We will now cite you to the 
9th chapter of Eevelation, from the 1st to the 12th 
verse inclusive: 



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1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star 
fall from heaven unto the earth ; and to him was 
given the key of the bottomless pit. 

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there 
arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great 
furnace ; and the sun and the air were darkened by- 
reason of the smoke of the pit. 

8 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon 
the earth ; and unto them w T as given power, as the 
scorpions of the earth have power. 

4 And it was commanded them that they should 
not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green 
thing, neither any tree ; but only those men which 
have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 

5 And to them it was given that they should not 
kill them, but that they should be tormented five 
months ; and their torment teas as the torment of a 
scorpion, when he striketh a man. 

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and 
shall not find it ; and shall desire to die, and death 
shall flee from them. 

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto 
horses prepared unto battle ; and on their heads were 
as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as 
the faces of men. 

8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and 
their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 

9 And they had breastplates, as it were breast- 
plates of iron ; and the sound of their wings teas as 
the sound of chariots of many horses running to 
battle. 

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and 
there were stings in their tails ; and their power was 
to hurt men five months. 

11 And they had a king over them, tchich is the 
angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the He- 
brew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue 
hath his name Apollyon. 



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12 One woe is past ; and, behold, there come two 
woes more hereafter. 

Sec. 2. At the close of the eighth chapter here, 
just after speaking of the fourth sound, John be- 
held an angel flying through the midst of heaven, 
saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the in- 
habiters of the earth, by reason of the other voices 
of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to 
sound. Then we are thus informed that the next 
three wars to be fought under the fifth, the sixth, 
and the seventh sounds, are to be so many woes. 

Then the fifth angel sounded, and John saw a star 
fall from heaven unto the earth, and to him was 
given the key to the bottomless pit, etc. John here 
winds up, after a short description of this war, by say- 
ing that one woe is past, and, behold, there come two 
more woes hereafter. Now, take John's description 
of this war, which was fought under the fifth sound, 
and then take his description of it as given upon 
the opening of the sixth seal, and compare them 
with what Josephus says in regard to the war of 
Titus Caesar, under the Roman flag, against the city 
of Jerusalem, in the seventieth year of the Christian 
era, and the most incredulous mind will feel con- 
vinced that this was the first woe. The very famine 
mentioned by Josephus, was pointed out, both as to 
severity and duration, by the inspired John. Here 
was the old dragon, who had been fought out of 
heaven, and cast into the earth, and on account of 
which it was said, Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, 
divested, it is true, of his royal robes, but yet wroth 
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the seeds of the Church. He transfers his power 
and his seat to the beast, and in this condition, in 
colleague with the beast, they attack the Jews in 
their stronghold, and well might it be called a woe. 
And farther, Josephus says, that a man went about 
during the siege of Jerusalem, continually crying, 
Woe, woe, woe, to the city of Jerusalem ; and that 
the more they chastised him to make him hush, the 
more vehemently he cried, Woe, woe, until a stone 
fell out of the wall upon him and crushed him. Set- 
ting it down, then, as an incontrovertible fact, that 
the war which was fought under the fifth sound by Ti- 
tus against Jerusalem, was the first woe, and the fifth 
vial of God's wrath poured out upon the Jews, we 
will proceed to the sixth sound, or second woe. We 
cite you to the 9th chapter of Revelation, beginning at 
the 13th verse, and on to the last of the 11th chapter: 

13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a 
voice from the four horns of the golden altar which 
is before God, 

14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trum- 
pet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the 
great river Euphrates. 

15 And the four angels were loosed, which were 
prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and 
a year, for to slay the third part of men. 

16 And the number of the army of the horsemen 
were two hundred thousand thousand; and I heard 
the number of them. 

17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and 
them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, 
and of jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the 
horses ivere as the heads of lions ; and out of their 
mouths issued' fire and smoke and brimstone. 



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18 By these three was the third part of men 
killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the 
brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 

19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their 
tails ; for their tails were like unto serpents, and had 
heads, and with them they do hurt. 

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed 
by these plagues yet repented not of the works of 
their hands, that they should not worship devils, and 
idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and 
of wood ; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk; 

21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor 
of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of 
their thefts. 

CHAPTER X. 

1 And I saw another mighty angel come down 
from heaven, clothed with a cloud ; and a rainbow 
was upon his head, and his face was as it were the 
sun, and his feet as pillars of fire ; 

2 And he had in his hand a little book open; 
and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left 
foot on the earth, 

3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion 
roareth ; and when he had cried, seven thunders 
uttered their voices. 

4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their 
voices, I was about to write ; and I heard a voice 
from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things 
which the seven thunders uttered, and write them 
not. 

5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea 
and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 

6 And swear by him that liveth for ever and ever, 
who created heaven, and the things that therein are, 
and the earth, and the things that therein are, and 
the sea, and the things which are therein, that there 
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7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh 
angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of 
God should be finished, as he hath declare*! to his 
servants the prophets. 

8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake 
unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book 
which is open in the hand of the angel which stand- 
eth upon the sea and upon the earth. 

9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, 
Give me the little book. And he said unto me, 
Take it, and eat it up ; and it shall make thy belly 
bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 

10 And I took the little book out of the angel's 
hand, and ate it up ; and it was in my mouth sweet 
as honey ; and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly 
was bitter. 

11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy 
again before my peoples, and nations, and tongues, 
and kings. 

CHAPTER XI. 

1 And there was given me a reed like unto a 
rod ; and the angel stood, saying, Rise and measure 
the temple of God, and the altar, and them that 
worship therein. 

2 But the court which is without the temple leave 
out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the 
Gentiles ; and the holy city shall they tread under 
foot forty and two months. 

3 And I will give poioer unto my two witnesses, 
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and 
three-score days, clothed in sackcloth. 

4 These are the two olive-trees, and the two can- 
dlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 

5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth 
out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies ; 
and if any man will hurt them, he must in this man- 
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6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain 
not in the days of their prophecy ; and have power 
over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the 
earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 

7 And when they shall have finished this testi- 
mony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottom- 
less pit shall make war against them, and shall over- 
come them, and kill them. 

8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of 
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and 
Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

9 And they of the people and kindreds and 
tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three 
days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead 
bodies to be put in graves. 

10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall re- 
joice over them, and make merry, and shall send 
gifts one to another; because these two prophets 
tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 

11 And after three days and a half the spirit of 
life from God entered into them, and they stood upon 
their feet ; and great fear fell upon them which saw 
them. 

12 And they heard a great voice from heaven 
saying unto them, Come up hither. And they as- 
cended up to heaven in a cloud ; and their enemies 
beheld him. 

13 And the same hour was there a great earth- 
quake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the 
earthquake were slain of men seven thousand ; and 
the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the 
God of heaven. 

14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third 
woe cometh quickly. 

15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there 
were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms 
of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and 
of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 



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16 And the four -and -twenty elders, which sat 
before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and 
worshiped God, 

17 Saying, We give thee thanks, Lord God Al- 
mighty, which art, and wast, and art to come ; be- 
cause thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and 
hast reigned. 

18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is 
come, and the time of the dead, that they should be 
judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto 
thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and 
them that fear thy name, small and great; and 
shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 

19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, 
and there was seen in his temple the ark of his tes- 
tament ; and there were lightnings, and voices, and 
thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. 

Sec. 3. I now bring you down to the sixth sound, 
or second woe, under which was fought the late 
American war. Before we speak of the late Amer- 
ican war, we must reconcile the apparent difficulty 
in regard to the two hundred thousand thousand 
that John beheld while treating of the sixth sound. 
We quote verses 13-16 : "And the sixth angel 
sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns 
of the golden altar which is before God, saying to 
the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the 
four angels which are bound in the great river Eu- 
phrates. And the four angels were loosed, which 
were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, 
and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And 
the number of the army of the horsemen were two 
hundred thousand thousand ; and I heard the num- 
ber of th^m*" This, the reader will see, amounts 
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to two hundred millions of men. Now, seeing the 
number of men here mentioned hj John under the 
sixth sound, inclines us at first not to think that the 
late war was fought under the sixth sound, since 
there was not, perhaps, but little over a million en- 
gaged in this war. It is my purpose to reconcile 
the mind upon this subject, and to show that the 
late American war was fought under the sixth sound, 
and was the second woe. Here John, after num- 
bering this armament, goes smartly into detail of a 
great struggle which he saw looming up before him ; 
but the question is, whether he was placing this war 
under the proper sound. Having shown you that 
the vials of wrath corresponded with the number of 
the sounds of the trumpets, we will refer to the 
pouring out the sixth vial of wrath in connection 
with the sixth sound, and see if we can obtain any 
aid in our interpretation of the sixth sound. We 
then refer you to the 12th verse of the 16th chapter 
of Revelation : we extract from this chapter, leaving 
the reader to examine the chapter in its connection 
at his leisure : "And the sixth angel poured out his 
vial upon the great river Euphrates ; and the water 
thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of 
the East might be prepared. And I saw three un- 
clean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the 
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out 
of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are 
the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go 
forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole 
world, to gather them to the battle of that great 
day of God Almighty." And sufficient for my pur- 



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pose here to add: "And he gathered them together 
into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armaged- 
don. " Now, whether John was leaping over the 
battle which was to be fought under the sixth sound 
for want of farther instruction, or whether he was 
instructed to make mention of this armament at 
this particular place, does not matter. It is evident 
that this armament was a preparation for the seventh 
or last battle. In proof of this, I show in the last 
quotation that these spirits of devils go forth unto 
the kings of earth and the whole world to gather 
them to the battle of that great day of God Al- 
mighty. In the first* quotation, John describes the 
armament of two hundred millions, which cannot 
possibly be made to mean less than the whole world. 
I therefore conclude that this armament of two hun- 
dred millions was the armament to fight the last bat- 
tle. But I offer yet another argument upon this 
point. 'You will remember that under the sixth 
sound the angel was instructed to loose the four 
angels that were bound in the great river Euphra- 
tes, and they were loosed and prepared as John saw 
with an armament of two hundred millions of men. 
Then, if the scourges of the sixth war means the 
sixth vial of wrath, and was to be poured out upon 
the great Euphrates to dry up its water, in order to 
prepare the way of the kings of the East to fight 
the seventh battle in Armageddon, this armament 
of two hundred millions could not possibly allude 
to the sixth war, or be to fight the sixth battle, see- 
ing that the sixth vial of wrath had not been poured 
out, and yet they stood already prepared. We will 



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then look to the 10th chapter of Revelation, and 
see if we can obtain any aid from it. Here the 
angel that stood with one foot upon the sea and the 
other upon the earth, as though he thought John 
was trying to close this thing out under the sixth 
sound, " lifted up his hand to heaven, and swareby 
him that liveth for ever and ever, who created 
heaven, and the things that therein are, and the 
earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, 
and the things which are therein, that there should 
be time no longer ; but in the days of the voice of 
the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, 
the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath 
declared to his servants the prophets.' ' John was 
then handed and commanded to eat the little book, 
and informed that he must prophesy again. Then 
John goes on in the 11th chapter, and gives the full 
particulars of the late American war, under the 
sixth sound, which he calls the second woe. The 
11th chapter of Revelation, where John prophesied 
after he had eaten the little book, is a rich chapter, 
which we now propose to consider. The first thing 
we will notice here, is the rise of the image-beast, 
and what beast the beast that was and is not, and 
yet is. That is the image of Nebuchadnezzar, who 
was while his tree stood, but was not while his 
stump remained bound with a band of iron and 
brass, and yet is in his branch-roots ; or, in other 
words, he is the old Assyrian king restored to his 
kingdom in his branch-roots. This brings us down, 
then, to the first period mentioned by Daniel, to the 
feet of the ^reat image, which was mixed with iron 



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and clay, upon which the little stone was to smite. 
He was said to arise out of the bottomless pit, and 
to go into perdition; his time was to be short; he 
was to continue but a short space. Then, to be the 
old king restored in his branch-roots, he must arise 
at the end of his seven times, according to God's 
promise. Then, if the end of his seven times, it 
must be at the end of the three and a half times of 
the beast. Then John says that he arose under the 
sixth sound of the trumpet, and during the great 
earthquake, or war, which he calls the second woe. 
Then we look to the rise of Maximilian in the Mex- 
ican Empire, during the late American war, for a 
literal fulfillment of this prophecy. But farther, w T e 
are informed here that a reed like unto a rod was 
given to John, and he was commanded right here to 
rise and measure the inner court, or the temple of 
God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. 
But the court which is without measure not, for it is 
given to the Gentiles. And the holy city shall they 
tread under foot forty and two months. He then 
goes on and says that he will give power unto his 
two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand 
two hundred and three-score days, etc. Well, who 
are these two witnesses ? They are the two olive- 
trees, or the two candlesticks standing before the 
god of the earth, or the false prophet. These two 
witnesses, then, must mean the two Testaments of 
Moses and Christ. They were compared under one 
figure to an olive-tree, from which oil was extracted 
to burn in the lamps, while under another figure 
they were compared to a candlestick, as being the 



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source from which light emanated. Then these two 
books are the two witnesses that stood before the 
false prophet during the dark ages prophesying, 
while the Church remained in the wilderness. Then, 
to arrive at a correct measurement of the inner 
court, we must begin at the change of the priest- 
hood, when Christ was made high-priest after his 
coronation in heaven. We are compelled to place 
the commencement of the prophecy of the New 
Testament after Christ's death, since it w 7 as his last 
will and testament, and a will is of.no effect until 
after the death of the testator. Then, to arrive at 
the time that the Church went into the wilderness, 
w r e must go to where the child was caught up to 
God and to his throne. Then cannot any one see that 
the forty and two months that the beast was to 
domineer over the seeds of the Church — the time, 
times, and half a time of the Church's banishment 
in the wilderness, and the thousand two hundred 
and three-score days' prophecy of the two witnesses 
having commenced at the same time, must expire at 
the same time ? The forty and two months, counted 
at thirty days to the month, is equivalent to tw T elve 
hundred and sixty days, or a time, times, and half a 
time, as I have shown you. Now recollect there are 
two courts — the inner court and the outer court. 
They were changed from the Jews to the Gentiles 
by two steps. The one was changed when Christ 
became high-priest, and the other when the Jewish 
temple fell and the nationality of the Jews ceased, 
and, consequently, they must be returned to the 
spiritual Jew by two steps in the restoration. When 



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they have both been changed, or restored, the thou- 
sand years of the millennium commences with both 
courts restored. John is here commanded to rise 
and measure the inner court, but not to measure the 
outer court. Why measure the inner court under 
the sixth sound ? Because the time of its restora- 
tion had come, and it was peculiarly proper to meas- 
ure at this exact time. "Why not measure the outer 
court? Because it was not out yet; the time had 
not yet come that it should be restored, and for a 
better reason still, John's measuring-rod of time, 
times, and half a time would not measure the outer 
court. He could pick it up and start out from the 
fall of the holy city, seventy years this side, and 
measure to the rise of the new city, when it was to 
spring up, but it would not measure the outer court, 
which must be restored at an intermediate period. 

The reader will remember at the outstart I called 
his attention to three grand periods, marked out by 
Daniel. The one was to the feet of the great image, 
to the restoration of the old Assyrian king in his 
branch-roots, to the end of the prophecy of the two 
witnesses, to the Church's return from the wilder- 
ness, or to the change of the inner court. The third 
period was to the rise of the new city, which must 
be forty and two months from the fall of the holy 
city. These two periods could be measured by 
John's rod of time, times, and half a time. But I 
referred you to a second, or intermediate period, as 
marked out by Daniel, which was when the Ancient 
of days should sit, when he should set his judgment 
and open his books. This second, or intermediate 



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period, is immediately after the seventh, or last war, 
which comes off under the seventh sound. During 
this war, the great city is to be divided into three 
parts, and the cities of the nations are to fall, or 
rather, these are to be the results of this seventh, or 
Sabbath of wars. In this broken-down condition 
of human governments, the Ancient of days is to 
set up his government upon the ruins. This is 
when nationality is to be taken from the Gentiles 
and restored to the people of God, or to the spir- 
itual Jew. This is the change of the outer court, 
when the millennium of a thousand years for the 
cleansing of the Church begins. But this image- 
beast, when he arose, was to make war against these 
two witnesses, and was to kill them. Although this 
war was really made by the horns of this beast 
against the Lamb, yet it was not improper to at- 
tribute it to the beast. 

Then in what light were they killed in the late 
American war? First, the members of the Churches 
quit going to church, and turned their attention to 
raising and equipping an army to make war against 
the Lamb. Secondly, the churches were turned 
over to the army to be used as hospitals, and relig- 
ious exercises measurably ceased; and, thirdly, 
plunder, rapine, and blood became the order of the 
day. The law and the gospel failed to check and 
hold in requisition the avarice and infuriated pas- 
sions of men, and hence they might be considered 
lifeless and dead. Then in what light did their 
dead bodies lie unburied in the street of the great 
city? Trace the great thoroughfare of the nation: 



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look to Corinth, to Chickamauga, to Richmond, and 
to Manassas, and let the seven thousand slain sol- 
diers from the altar answer. But the tenth part of the 
great city was to fall under this sound. Now, to fall 
here, does not mean to be slain; the seven thousand 
from the altar, or from the churches, w^ere slain, but 
the tenth part of the city was to fall. It makes my 
heart bleed to discuss the great fall of the South. 
Historv records but few instances of a greater fall. 
A people opulent, intelligent, and in the full enjoy- 
mentof self-government, nowwith their .cotton-fields 
turned to sedge, disfranchised, and the reins of gov- 
ernment in the hands of an inferior race ! But to 
return to the two witnesses. Their dead bodies 
were to lay unburied in the street of the great city 
three years and a half, and then they were to revive 
and stand upon their feet ; they were to ascend to 
heaven in a cloud. Here the prophet measures the 
exact period of the late war, as you will see when 
we explain the rule of count. Then at the close of 
the war they ascended to heaven at the exact time 
that the inner court was restored, and the Church 
emerged from the wilderness. Here, then, was the 
Church returned — the restored Jewish heaven — and 
thus they ascended to heaven under the smoke of 
battle. The war was over; the churches were 
swept, and the carpets spread; the two heavens, 
as it were, merged into one ; life entered into 
these two books; the old Assyrian king's seven 
times was out; he saw himself restored to his king- 
dom in his branch-roots, in accordance with God's 
promise, made to him near four thousand years ago; 



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he saw the dead bodies of these two faithful wit- 
nesses lying unburied in the street of the great city, 
and what did he know? He knew that God ruled 
in the kingdom of men ; he saw the Church emerge 
from the wilderness ; he saw the two heavens, as it 
were, meet and blend into one ; he saw the two wit- 
nesses revive and ascend to the millennial heaven ; 
and what did he know ? He knew that the heavens 
ruled. Thus you see I have brought you down a 
time, times, and half a time, to eighteen hundred 
and sixty-five, to the close of the late American war, 
which John says was fought under the sixth sound, 
and which he calls the second woe. The third woe 
he says comes quickly. 

Sec. 4. We will now turn our attention to the 
seventh sound, or the third woe. I will then cite 
you to the 16th chapter of Revelation, from which 
we will again extract, beginning at the 12th verse : 
"And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the 
great river Euphrates ; and the water thereof was 
dried up, that the way of the kings of the East 
might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits 
like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and 
out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth 
of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of 
devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the 
kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather 
them to the battle of that great day of God Al- 
mighty. And he gathered them together into a 
place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." 
According to my views, then, the scourges of the 
late American war was the sixth vial of wrath. 



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What, then, is meant by this vial being poured out 
upon the great river Euphrates as a means of pre- 
paring the way of the kings of the East for the last 
great conflict ? The reader will remember that the 
term many waters represents peoples, multitudes, na- 
tions, and tongues, as explained in the last of the 
17th chapter of Kevelation. While many waters 
has a more universal meaning, a single great river 
may properly be used to represent a single nation, 
or people. Then, where was this sixth vial poured 
out ? Upon the United States. Then, what is the in- 
ference to be drawn from the expression ? I take it 
to be this : Old Babylon, you know, was situated 
upon the great river Euphrates ; then, if the great 
city or national emporium of the United States may 
be thought to be the great city alluded to by the 
prophet, and is a type of the government, and 
likened to the city of old Babylon, may not the 
river Euphrates be used with equal propriety to rep- 
resent the people of this nation ? What, then, is 
meant by drying up the water of the river Euphra- 
tes as a means of preparing the way of the kings of 
the East ? We all know that before the late Amer- 
ican war, the United States was the most formidable 
power upon the globe. The government of the Uni- 
ted States held absolute sway over all other govern- 
ments. But her condition is quite the reverse now. 
First, she stands divided in sentiment and in heart: 
and, secondly, her resources are greatly dried up. 
The national debt incurred during the late war crip- 
ples her very much, and, therefore, she is not re- 
garded as formidable as before. What influence this 



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may have in foreign complications to bring about 
the next great struggle, God alone can tell. One 
thing we do know: in a short period after the close 
of the war, every nation upon the globe increased 
and fitted out its armament to its full effective 
strength, and the whole world stands to-day await- 
ing the sound of the seventh trumpet, to engage 
horse and dragoon in the great and last struggle. 

In order that my readers may more fully compre- 
hend the magnitude of this great conflict, which 
embraces the whole world, or, as John describes it, 
two hundred millions of men, I will cite you to the 
graphic description of it by Ezekiel, in his 38th and 
39th chapters, where he is called to prophesy against 
Gog in the land of Magog: 

CHAPTER XXXVIII. 

1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, say- 
ing, 

2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land 
of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, 
and prophesy against him, 

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I 
am against thee, Gog, the chief prince of Meshech 
and Tubal ; 

4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into 
thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine 
army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with 
all sorts of armor, even a great company with bucklers 
and shields, all of them handling swords ; 

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them ; all of 
them with shield and helmet ; 

6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togar- 
mah of the north quarters, and all his bands; and 
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7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, 
and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, 
and be thou a guard unto them. 

8 After many days thou shalt be visited ; in the 
latter years thou shalt come into the land that is 
brought back from the sword, and is gathered out 
of many people, against the mountains of Israel, 
which have been always waste ; but it is brought 
forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely 
all of them. 

9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou 
shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all 
thy bands, and many people with thee. 

10 Thus saith the Lord God ; It shall also come 
to pass, that at the same time shall things come into 
thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought ; 

11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of 
unw r alled villages ; I will go to them that are at rest, 
that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, 
and having neither bars nor gates, 

12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey ; to turn 
thine hand upon the desolate places that are now in- 
habited, and upon the people that are gathered out 
of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, 
that dw r ell in the midst of the land. 

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tar- 
shish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto 
thee, Art thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou 
gathered thy company to take a prey ? to carry 
away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, 
to take a great spoil ? 

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto 
Gog, Thus saith the Lord God ; In that day when my 
people of Israel dwelleth safely,shalt thou not know it? 

15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the 
north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of 
them riding upon horses, a great company, and a 
mighty army ; 



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16 And thou shalt come up against my people of 
Israel, as a cloud to cover the land ; it shall be in 
the latter clays, and I will bring thee against my 
land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall 
be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 

17 Thus saith the Lord God ; Art thou he of 
whom I have spoken in olden time by my servants 
the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those 
days many years, that I would bring thee against 
them ? 

18 And it shall come to pass at the same time 
when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, 
saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in 
my face. 

19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my 
wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall 
be a great shaking in the land of Israel ; 

20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of 
the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creep- 
ing things that creep upon the earth, and all the 
men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake 
at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown 
down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall 
shall fall to the ground. 

21 And I will call for a sword against him through- 
out all my mountains, saith the Lord God ; every 
man's sword shall be against his brother. 

22 And I will plead against him with pestilence 
and with blood ; and I will rain upon him, and upon 
his bands, and upon the many people that are with 
him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, 
and brimstone. 

23 Thus will I magify myself, and sanctify my- 
self; and I will be known in the eyes of many na- 
tions, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 

CHAPTER XXXIX. 

1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against 



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Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I 
am against thee, Gog, the chief prince of Me- 
shech and Tubal ; 

2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the 
sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up 
from the north parts, and w T ill bring thee upon the 
mountains of Israel; 

8 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, 
and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right 
hand. 

4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, 
thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with 
thee ; I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of 
every sort, and to the beasts of the field, to be de- 
voured. 

5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field ; for I have 
spoken it, saith the Lord God. 

6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among 
them that dwell carelessly in the isles; and they 
shall know that I am the Lord. 

7 So will I make my holy name known in the 
midst of my people Israel ; and I will not let them 
pollute my holy name any more ; and the heathen 
shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in 
Israel. 

8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord 
God ; this is the day w r hereof I have spoken. 

9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall 
go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, 
both the shields and the bucklers, the bow^s and the 
arrows, and the hand-staves, and the spears, and 
they shall burn them with fire seven years ; 

10 So that they shall take no wood out of the 
field, neither cut down any out of the forests ; for 
they shall burn the weapons with fire ; and they 
shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those 
that robbed them, saith the Lord God. 

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I 



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will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, 
the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea ; 
and it shall stop the noses of the passengers ; and 
there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude, and 
they shall call it. The valley of Hamon-gog. 

12 And seven months shall the house of Israel 
be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. 

13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them ; 
and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall 
be glorified, saith the Lord God. 

14 And they shall sever out men of continual em- 
ployment, passing through the land, to bury with 
the passengers those that remain upon the face of 
the earth, to cleanse it; after the end of seven 
months shall they search. 

15 And the passengers that pass through the land, 
when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a 
sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the val- 
ley of Hamon-gog. 

16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamo- 
nah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 

17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord 
God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every 
beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come ; 
gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that 
I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the 
mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink 
blood. 

18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink 
the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of 
lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fat- 
lings of Bashan. 

19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink 
blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice w r hich I 
have sacrificed for you. 

20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses 
and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of 
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21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, 
and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I 
have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon 
them. 

22 So the house of Israel shall* know that I am 
the Lord their God from that clay and forward. 

23 And the heathen shall know T that the house of 
Israel went into captivity for their iniquity ; because 
they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face 
from them, and gave them into the hand of their 
enemies ; so fell they all by the sword. 

24 According to their uncleanness and according 
to their transgressions have I done unto them, and 
hid my face from them. 

25 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Now will 
I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy 
upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous 
for my holy name ; 

26 After that they have borne their shame, and 
all their trespasses w r hereby they have trespassed 
against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, 
and none made them afraid. 

27 When I have brought them again from the peo- 
ple, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, 
and am sanctified in them in the sight of many na- 
tions ; 

28 Then shall they know that I am the Lord their 
God, which caused them to be led into captivity 
among the heathen ; but I have gathered them unto 
their own land, and have left none of them any more 
there. 

29 Neither will I hide my face any more from 
them ; for I have poured out my Spirit upon the 
house of Israel, saith the Lord God. 

Sec. 5. This o T eat Armageddon battle, as called 
by John, is to be fought, according to Ezekiel, in 
the mountains of Israel, in the land of unwalled vil- 



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lages, in the great valley east of the sea. It appears 
from the reading, that these ten image-horns were 
to take part in this great struggle. John says that 
they have received no kingdom as yet, but receive 
power as kings one hour with the beast, until the 
words of God be fulfilled. They shall hate the great 
whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and 
shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. Ezekiel 
says: "I am against thee, Gog! I will turn thee 
back, and put hooks into thy jaws. After many 
days thou shalt be visited ; in the latter years thou 
shalt come into the land that is brought back from 
the sword, and is gathered out of many people 
against the mountains of Israel. And thou shalt 
ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a 
cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and 
many people with thee. And thou shalt say, I 
will go up to the land of unwalled villages, to take 
a spoil, and carry away silver and gold. And thou 
shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, 
thou, and many people with thee ; it shall be in the 
latter days. And it shall come to pass at the same 
time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, 
saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in 
my face. Surely in that day there shall be a great 
shaking in the land of Israel. And I will plead 
against him with pestilence and with blood ; and I 
will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon 
the many people that are with him, an overflowing 
rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone, ,, 
which John says shall be the weight of a talent. 
"And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, 



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and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy 
right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of 
Israel. Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the 
Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go 
forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, 
both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the 
arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and 
they shall burn them with fire seven years ; so that 
they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut 
dow T n any out of the forests ; for they shall burn 
the weapons w r ith fire ; and they shall spoil those 
that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, 
saith the Lord God." 

After the destruction of the profligate and doomed 
city, this grand army of Israel will take up its tri- 
umphant march to the great valley east of the sea, 
where Israel will furnish Gog a place of graves. 
After this great conflict, the great city is to be di- 
vided into three parts, and the cities of the nations 
are to fall. At this great battle of Gog in Arma- 
geddon, human governments are to crumble and 
fall. This is where Babylon is to fall. For the de- 
cline and fall of Babylon, we cite to the 18th and 
19th chapters of Revelation : 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

1 And after these things I saw another angel 
come down from heaven, having great power ; and 
the earth w 7 as lightened with his glory. 

2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, say- 
ing, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is be- 
come the habitation of devils, and the hold of every 



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foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful 
bird. 

3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the 
wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth 
have committed fornication with her, and the mer- 
chants of the earth are waxed rich through the 
abundance of her delicacies. 

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not par- 
takers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her 
plagues. 

5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and 
God hath remembered her iniquities. 

6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and 
double unto her double according to her works; in 
the cup which she has filled, fill to her double. 

7 How much, she hath glorified herself, and lived 
deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her; 
for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no 
widow, and shall see no sorrow. 

8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, 
death, and mourning, and famine ; and she shall be 
utterly burned with fire ; for strong is the Lord God 
who judgeth her. 

9 And the kings of the earth, who have commit- 
ted fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall 
bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see 
the smoke of her burning, 

10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, 
saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that 
mighty city ! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 

11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep 
and mourn over her ; for no man buyeth their mer- 
chandise any more ; 

12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and pre- 
cious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and pur- 
ple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and 
all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels 



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of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and 
marble, 

13 And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and 
frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and 
wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and char- 
iots, and slaves, and souls of men. 

14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are 
departed from thee, and all things which were dainty 
and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt 
find them no more at all. 

15 The merchants of these things, which were 
made rich by her, shall stand afar oft* for the fear of 
her torment, weeping and wailing, 

16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that 
was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, 
and decked with gold, and precious stones, and 
pearls ! 

17 For in one hour so great riches is come to 
nought. And every ship-master, and all the com- 
pany in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by 
sea, stood afar off, 

18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her 
burning, saying, What city is like unto this great 
city! 

19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, 
weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great 
city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in 
the sea by reason of her costliness ! for in one hour 
is she made desolate. 

20 Eejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy 
apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you 
on her. 

21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a 
great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, 
Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be 
thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 

22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and 
of pipers, and trumpeters, shall he heard no more 



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at all in thee ; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft 
he be, shall be found any more in thee ; and the 
sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all 
in thee ; 

23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more 
at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and 
of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee; 
for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; 
for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, 
and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the 
earth. 

CHAPTER XIX. 

1 And after these things I heard a great voice of 
much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, 
and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord 
our God ; 

2 For true and righteous are his judgments ; for 
he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt 
the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the 
blood of his servants at her hand. 

3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke 
rose up for ever and ever. 

4 And the four-and-twenty elders and the four 
beasts fell down and worshiped God that sat on the 
throne, saying, Amen ; Alleluia. 

5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, 
Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear 
him, both small and great. 

6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great 
multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as 
the voice of mighty thunclerings, saying, Alleluia ; 
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 

7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to 
him ; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his 
wife hath made herself ready. 

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arrayed in fine linen, clean and white ; for the fine 
linen is the righteousness of saints. 

9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they 
which are called unto the marriage supper of the 
Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true 
sayings of God. 

10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he 
said unto me, See thou do it not; I am thy fellow- 
servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony 
of Jesus; worship God; for the testimony of Jesus 
is the spirit of prophecy. 

11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white 
horse ; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful 
and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and 
make war. 

12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his 
head were many crowns ; and he had a name written, 
that no man knew, but he himself. 

13 And he icas clothed with a vesture dipped in 
blood ; and his name is called The Word of God. 

14 And the armies ivhich were in heaven followed 
him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white 
and clean. 

15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sw^ord, 
that with it he should smite the nations ; and he 
shall rule them with a rod of iron ; and he treadeth 
the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Al- 
mighty God. 

16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a 
name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF 
LORDS. 

17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun ; and 
he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls 
that &y in the midst of heaven, Come and gather 
yourselves together unto the supper of the great 
God; 

18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the 
flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and 



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the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, 
and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both 
small and great. 

19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the 
earth, and their armies, gathered together to- make 
war against him that sat on the horse, and against 
his army. 

20 And the beast was taken, and with him the 
false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with 
which he deceived them that had received the mark 
of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. 
These both, were cast alive into a lake of fire burn- 
ing with brimstone. 

21 And the remnant were slain with, the sword 
of him that sat upon the horse, which sword pro- 
ceeded out of his mouth ; and all the fowls were 
filled with their flesh. 



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CHAPTER V. 

Section 1. The two great national sins of the Jews, and the rise 
of the new city. — Section 2. The two great codes of laws by 
Moses and Christ — the outer and inner courts. — Section 3. 
God's people called to come out of Babylon, 

But in the last days it shall come to pass, that 
the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be estab- 
lished in the top of the mountains, and it shall be 
exalted above the hills ; and the people shall flow 
unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, 
Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, 
and to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will 
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths ; 
for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word 
of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge 
among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar 
oft'; and they shall beat their swords into plow- 
shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks : nation 
shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither 
shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit 
every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; 
and none shall make them afraid ; for the mouth of 
the Lord of hosts hath spoken it (Micah i. 1-4.) 

Section 1. In this divided and broken-down con- 
dition of human governments, God will set up his 



90 THE TIMES. 

kingdom, and have his government administered by 
his people in accordance with his own forms. The 
outer court will be here changed and restored to the 
spiritual Jew, and will be administered under the 
Mosaic code, while the inner court will be adminis- 
tered according to the laws of Christ. Thus you 
see we have brought you to the change of the outer 
court, where nationality is to be restored to the spir- 
itual Jew. This is the period when the Ancient of 
days is to sit; when his judgment is to be set, and his 
books to be opened. Here the thousand years of 
the millennium will begin. The millennial age is 
the period for the cleansing of the Church. This, 
then, is the restoration of the spiritual Jew. And 
what are God's people restored to ? They are re- 
stored to that from which they departed when they 
forsook God and his statutes, and followed after the 
manners, customs, and idols of surrounding nations. 
The Jews, as a nation, committed two great of- 
fenses. The one was, they became tired that God 
should rule over them supremely as their king ; and 
the other was, that they departed from God's statutes 
and judgments. In proof of this, I first cite you to 
the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel. The Jews besought 
Samuel to make them a king like the surrounding 
nations. Samuel was displeased at this, and prayed 
to God upon the subject. God suffered it, but told 
Samuel that it was not him that they rejected, but 
God, and so they added to their other sins this last, 
also, that they asked a king. We then cite you to 
the ninth chapter of Daniel for proof of the other. 
While Daniel was yet a captive in Babylon, he en- 



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gaged iii solemn prayer to God on account of the 
desolations of Jerusalem. In this solemn appeal to 
the God of the universe, by one possessed of his 
piety and his wisdom, it is to be supposed that he 
would strike at the true cause of God's displeasure 
with his people. Daniel here admits the fact that 
the Jews had departed from God's judgments, and 
from his statutes, in consequence of which they had 
been sent into captivity. These, then, were the two 
great national sins of the Jews. God suffered all 
this, but in the meantime he pointed out to them, 
through his prophets, the destiny of human govern- 
ments, through the rise and fall of four universal 
kingdoms, upon the ruins of which he would yet re- 
store them to his own form of government, from which 
they had thus departed. The next period to which 
I must invite your attention, is to the rise of the new 
city, when the country is to be lotted off to the 
twelve tribes of spiritual Israel. Ezekiel says, in 
his 14th chapter, that the hand of the Lord was upon 
him, and in the visions of God he was brought into 
the land of Israel, and set upon a very high moun- 
tain, by which was as the frame of a great city on 
the south. In the eighteenth and nineteenth chap- 
ters of Revelation you will see the description of the 
fall of the great city under the type of Babylon, 
with the causes of her decline and fall. This new 
city, then, must rise instead of the one that has thus 
fallen, and must arise in this last period mentioned 
by Daniel, as the end of the days in which he was 
to stand in his lot. 

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92 THE TIMES. 

the days mentioned by Daniel, we have so far ac- 
complished our purpose. We will beg the indul- 
gence of our readers while we make a few remarks 
upon governments and their administration in gen- 
eral, after which w r e will take up and discuss the 
great theological puzzle of the times, and we may in 
conclusion sav something in regard to the millennial 
age, and, perhaps, something as to the general judg- 
ment. 

Sec. 2. It will be remembered that the law of 
Moses, as w r e generally call it, w r as in its incipient 
state, written out by the finger of God. It is some- 
times called the Ten Commandments. These Ten 
Commandments, then, in their proper import, fully 
comprehend the whole duty of man. It was, so to 
speak, a divine form of a constitution, upon which 
to base a national code of laws and government. 
In the progress of time, in perfect accordance with 
this constitution, the Jews, as a nation, became pos- 
sessed of a great national code of law T s for their na- 
tional government, and hence we sometimes refer 
to it as the Jewish polity. 

This constitution and code of laws, although 
specially given to the Jews for their national gov- 
ernment, was no less a model worthy of the adop- 
tion of the whole world. But while this great code 
of laws appeared to be alone for the national gov- 
ernment in the flesh, it was typical of a spirituality 
w T hich it actually contained within it, for the gov- 
ernment of the inner or spiritual man. This spirit- 
uality, then, was fully developed in Christ, and 
brought to bear upon the hearts and consciences of 



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men through the gospel. Now, when we speak of 
the national government of the Jews in the flesh, 
we mean their government in a national point of 
view, and speak of it as the outer court; but when 
we come to the spirituality of the thing, as illus- 
trated in the ecclesiastical government of the Church, 
we speak of it as the inner court. Then, just as 
we find man constituted with outer form in the 
flesh, and with inner form in the spirit, so the law 
and the gospel were made, as represented by the two 
courts in the tabernacle — the one for the national 
and the other for the spiritual government of man. 
Here, then, we have built up by Moses and Christ 
two grand codes of laws upon a constitution of 
divine form, fully competent to the government of 
man, both nationally and spiritually. The law of 
Christ is a perfect law. He who is free in Christ is 
free indeed. Christ has become the end of the carnal 
law to the believer. Since, however, we are com- 
manded to be subject to the powers that be, I am 
not prepared to say that society can dispense with 
penal laws for the punishment of offenders. The 
executioner of the law is the minister of God — a 
revenger to execute wrath upon the evil-doer. 
Why, then, think it incredible that we should fall 
back upon the Mosaic code for our national govern- 
ment in the millennial age ? Can men ever see eye 
to eye, and speak the same thing under human laws, 
either in political or ecclesiastical governments? 
They certainly never can. Now, if God gave a con- 
stitution and laws for the government of man, to 
find out afterward that they were not competent, 



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would prove his incompetency. If, however, he was 
competent, who could make a better code ? Every 
attempt of man to set up any form of government, 
either political or ecclesiastical, contrary to God's 
form, has evidently stood in the way of civilization 
and religious progress. We see this exemplified in 
the career of the four great kingdoms brought to 
light by Daniel under the figure of the great image. 
These great empires that arose in their turn are 
represented by a hydra-headed dragon, and why ? 
Because of the plurality of their forms and admin- 
istration, and the incapacity of man to make a per- 
fect form. One man sets himself up as head of a 
government, which he administers under a human 
code of laws, while another sets himself up under 
a different set of human laws, and the consequence is 
they come into conflict. They are not governed by 
laws adapted to the nature of man, neither by laws 
common to them both, and must, in the very nature 
of things, engender strife. Place seven wild horses 
in your machine, each one with a head and a will of 
his own — while one drives in one direction, the 
others, driving in different directions, must, of ne- 
cessity, tear the machine in pieces ; and just so with 
human governments administered by so many heads, 
as foretold by the prophets. 

Then, if this rule holds good in political govern- 
ments, it must hold equally true in religious govern- 
ments. Why did the Church fly into the wilderness ? 
Because the dragon and beast in colleague were too 
strong for her. She could not in her infancy face 
the serpent. The Caesars, under the great power of 



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the Roman flag, built up this organization repre- 
sented by this mystic woman, and engrafted it into 
their body politic. They departed from the true 
Bible constitution, and built upon one of their own 
make ; and while rivers of blood have marked their 
progress, these two books prophesied before them 
through the dark ages, and stand to-da} r as living 
monuments of the pow r er and w 7 isdom of God. 
Then, just as sure as these political forms of gov- 
ernment under type of Bybalon must crumble and 
fall, that sure will this great ecclesiastical organiza- 
tion represented by this mystic woman fall. God 
has decreed it, and it will come to pass. And in 
view of this, he calls upon his people to come out 
of Babylon, that they may not participate in her 
plagues. One Church may not say to another, Come 
out of Babylon, for they are all in Babylon. 

There is not, perhaps, a Church organization upon 
the globe but what hold to some errors. They have 
all brought down with them some of the errors of 
their old mother Church. The power of the holy 
people is truly scattered, as Daniel foretold that it 
should be before the end. The very fact that they 
are all called out of Babylon, is proof to my mind 
that he has people in all the denominations. 

Sec. 3. Then, they are called to come out of Baby- 
lon. The millennial age is dawning. This is the 
period for the cleansing of the Church. The Church 
must collect itself together. God's people must see 
eye to eye, and speak the same thing. They must 
be one, as Christ and his Father are one. "While 
these different organizations stand upon creeds and 



96 THE TIMES. 

constitutions of men's make, and fight under differ- 
ent banners, they never can come together. They 
should fight under one name, and under the banner 
of Christ, as his disciples. The Church once united 
in one name and under one banner, would be terri- 
ble as an army. She would shake the powers of in- 
fidelity, and cause the spirit of Christianity to flow 
as rivers of love from breast to breast, from neigh- 
borhood to neighborhood, and from country to 
country, until the ends of the earth would praise the 
living God, and worship him. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

Section 1. Thoughts relative to the beginning of the Christian 
era, and King Herod the Great. — Section 2. Herod the tetrarch. 

Section 1. Before we enter upon the measure- 
ment of the times, we will offer a few thoughts rel- 
ative to the beginning of the Christian era. Much 
confusion has arisen from the apparent mists that 
are thrown around this question, and it is quite evi- 
dent that no calculation in regard to the prophetic 
times can be right, unless we are right upon this 
subject. "We first cite you to Genesis, chapter 49, 
verse 10: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, 
nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh 
come." King Herod was the first that w T ielded the 
scepter in Judea outside of the royal family. He 
was an Idumean, not in the royal line, and only a 
half Jew — Josephus's Antiquities, Book 14. Before 
Herod was made king, he was made tetrarch by 
Antony — see Josephus, Book 14. After a reign of 
thirty years he died, and his son Archelaus ascended 
the throne in his stead. (Josephus's Antiquities, 
Book 17, chapter 9.) 

Now, to be consistent with Holy Writ, we must 
allow Christ to have been born before Herod the 
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Great assumed the ensigns of royalty in the land 
of Judea. Herod was evidently in some sort of 
power or authority at the birth of Christ. We 
suppose he was only tetrarch under Antony at the 
time, since we are informed by Josephus that An- 
tony made him tetrarch, or king, over a fourth 
part of the kingdom, before he was made king by 
the Senate of Rome. Herod evidently desired to have 
the young child slain, fearing that he might compete 
with him for the throne of Judea. In the second 
chapter of Matthew we are informed that the angel 
of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and told 
him to take the young child and his mother, and 
flee into ^gypt, and to remain there until he brought 
him word, since Herod sought the young child's 
life, and they departed into Egypt, and was there 
until the death of Herod. Josephus says, Book 17, 
that when Herod was dead, that Archelaus, his son, 
succeeded him upon the throne in Judea. Matthew 
continues: "But when Herod was dead, behold, an 
angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph 
in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child 
and his mother, and go into the land of Israel ; for 
they are dead which sought the young child's life. 
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in 
Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid 
to go thither; notwithstanding, being warned of 
God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of 
Galilee." Matthew says in his third chapter : " In 
those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the 
wilderness of Judea. Then cometh Jesus from 
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him." Luke says in his third chapter, that John 
" came into all the country about Jordan preaching. 
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to 
pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, 
the heavens were opened, and the Holy Ghost de- 
scended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and 
a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my 
beloved Son ; in thee I am well pleased. And Jesus 
himself began to be about thirty years of age." 
Now, from these plain narratives, we see that Herod 
was dead, and Archelaus was upon the throne be- 
fore Jesus was brought back from Egypt. He at 
first turned aside into the parts of Galilee, but came 
from Galilee to Jordan, and was baptized of John, 
and in those days he began to be about thirty years 
old. Now, it will not escape notice that the first 
thirty years of Christ's life were contemporaneous 
with the last thirty years of Herod's reign. Then, 
if Herod reigned more than thirty years, the over- 
plus of his reign must have been before the birth of 
Christ, and, hence, the other seven years of his 
reign must run back to the period when he was 
tetrarch under Antony, before he was made king. 
Josephus says that from the time that Herod was 
made king, three years before the battle of Actium, 
was one hundred and seven years to the fall of 
Jerusalem. Now, allow four years to have been 
lost between the ascension and coronation of Christ, 
to the beginning of the Christian era, as under 
the present count, which will not be disputed, and 
allow that Christ w T as crucified when a few months 
over thirty- three years, and then add the thirty 



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years to his baptism, the three years to his ascension 
and coronation, and the four years that were thus 
lost in the count of the era, would make thirty- 
seven years to the present count of the Christian 
era : then add the seventy years to the fall of Jeru- 
salem, under Titus, would make the one hundred 
and seven years, and make the holy city to have 
fallen in the seventieth year of the Christian era, as 
under present count, as computed by Josephus in 
his wars of the Jews — Book 6, chapter 1— where he 
says this was a remarkable day indeed, the 17th of 
Paneneus (Tammuz,) A. D. 70 — when, according to 
Daniel's prediction, six hundred and six years be- 
fore, the Romans, in half a week, caused the sacri- 
fice and oblation to cease, Now, what does Rollin 
say? He makes the battle of Actium to have been 
fought in the thirty-first year of the Christian era, 
when we show you from the plain language of the 
Scripture that Christ was only born somewhere 
about that period. Finding his chronology wrong in 
this matter, we prefer to follow the more rational 
view of Josephus, who wrote near those times, and 
who has been considered reliable in all as;es since. 
Now, when we consider Rollin to mean that the bat- 
tle of Actium was fought in the year B. C, or thirty- 
one years before the reign of Christ, we will approx- 
imate something nearer the truth. And what was 
there at the birth of Christ to begin a new era ? He 
was only thought to become a temporal prince, and 
it was not till after his ascension, and the beginning 
of his spiritual reign, that a new era could be prop- 
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Those who take issue with us here, base their 
count upon the views of commentators who admit 
that the count of the Christian era did not have an 
earlier origin than in the fifth or sixth century. 
What could they know about the matter after a lapse 
of five or six hundred years of the darkest ages of 
Roman Catholicism ? Allowing, then, that Christ 
was born while Herod was tetrarch under Antony, 
and that Christ was baptized and entered the min- 
istry according to the custom of the Jews, when he 
was about thirty years old ; that he was crucified at 
about thirty-three years of age, and that four years 
elapsed between his coronation and the present 
count of the Christian era, and that the holy city 
fell A. D. 70, we will next turn our attention to 
Herod the tetrarch, who beheaded John the Baptist. 

Sec. 2. We are well aware that the mention of the 
two Herods of this particular period throws a mist 
around the subject to some minds, who have not 
taken the pains to investigate the matter : we will, 
therefore, try to make this matter plain to every 
mind. It will be remembered that Herod the Great, 
or the old King Herod of which we have been speak- 
ing, who married Miriamne, the granddaughter of 
Hyrcanus, had two sons by Cleopatra — one named 
Herod, and the other named Philip. These two 
brothers had both received a tetrarchy, as mentioned 
by Josephus's Antiquities, Book 18, chapter 2. This 
Herod the tetrarch, the brother of Philip, is the 
Herod that beheaded John the Baptist, on account 
of Herodias, who had been his brother Philip's 
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called king, since a tetrarchy, as explained by Jose- 
phus, amounted to about the fourth part of a king- 
dom. Luke, in his third chapter, says : "Now in 
the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Csesar, 
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod 
being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip 
tetrarch of Iturea," etc. "The word of God came 
unto John, and John came into all the country about 
Jordan preaching/' etc. "But Herod the tetrarch, 
being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother 
Philip's wife, and for all the evils that Herod had 
done, added yet this above all, that he shut up John 
in prison." Thus we see that John was imprisoned 
and beheaded by Herod the tetrarch, after the bap- 
tism of Christ and the death of Herod the Great. 
This much premised in regard to the beginning of 
the Christian era, we will proceed to the discussion 
of the times. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

Section 1. Introduction to the times. — Section 2. Mode of count 
by weeks.— Section 3. Table of Sabbath-time, and the shorten- 
ing of the days for the elect's sake. — Section 4. The twelve 
hundred and ninety days of Daniel. — Section 5. The devil 
bound a thousand years. — Section 6. Beginning of the millen- 
nium. 

Section 1. "We now enter upon the most difficult 
part of our labors — that is, the investigation of the 
times. To enter into the discussion of a mystery, 
which has been locked up by divine wisdom for 
ages, with any assurance of being able to unfold its 
meaning in the first place, excites incredulity. It is 
evident that a subject of this magnitude, and a puz- 
zle which has so long defied the most learned and 
talented of every nation into which the Bible has 
been translated, could not be comprehended in one's 
own mind without years of deep and prayerful 
thought ; and even when he might think that he un- 
derstood it himself, the task of explaining it to others, 
who, perhaps, had devoted but little time and 
thought upon the subject, would be arduous. "We 
must, nevertheless, make the effort. We are com- 
pelled now, in self-defense, to sustain our views 
by the measurement of the times, or we must call 



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down upon ourself the contempt and derision of 
an enlightened public. 

Before we enter into the discussion of the times, 
we will call your attention to the things which we 
have got to measure. First, we wish to measure the 
period of the prophecy of the two witnesses. John 
says, "And they shall prophesy a thousand two hun- 
dred and three-score days." Then, where shall we 
begin ? We must begin at the time that Christ 
was made high-priest, which was at his coronation, 
after his death. We must begin after his death, 
since the New Testament is his last will and testa- 
ment, and a will is of no effect until after the death 
of the testator. We must then begin at the com- 
mencement of the Christian era proper. What do 
we wish to measure in the second place ? We wish, 
secondly, to measure the period of the Church's 
banishment into the wilderness, to be fed there a 
time, times, and half a time. Then, as before, w r e 
must begin at the beginning of the present era. 
We then wish, in the third place, to measure the 
time that the beast was to domineer over the seeds 
of the Church. John says they were to be given 
into his hands for forty and two months. When 
shall we begin this measurement ? We showed you 
that the dragon was fought out of heaven after the 
crucifixion of the Saviour, since it was through his 
blood, and the testimony of the brethren, that he 
w r as repulsed, and that Csesar, or the beast, took his 
seat immediately. Then we must, as in both the 
other cases, begin at the beginning of the Christian 
era. Now, what are w T e actually measuring, any 



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way? We are measuring the inner court — that is, 
from the time it was taken from the Jews until it is 
restored to them as-ain. John was furnished a reed 
like unto a rod, and commanded to rise and measure 
the inner court. This rod, then, is given in these 
three expressions. The forty and two months, at 
thirty days to the month, is equivalent to a thousand 
two hundred and three-score days. A thousand two 
hundred and three-score days is equivalent to the 
time, times, and half a time, since the banishment 
of the Church is mentioned by both expressions in 
one chapter. This, then, was John's measuring- 
rod. He is commanded to measure the inner court. 
Now, since we show you that the beginning of the 
prophecy of the two witnesses of the Church's ban- 
ishment into the wilderness, and of the reign of the 
beast, were all the same, does it not follow that those 
periods must expire at the same time ? What farther 
do we wish to measure with this rod ? John says 
that the holy city shall be trodden under foot by the 
Gentiles fortv and two months. Then, we wish to 
measure this period, and where shall we begin ? We 
must begin, of course, at the fall of Jerusalem, in 
the seventy-fourth year of the Christian era proper. 
This same rod, then, when lifted up and set seven- 
ty-four years this side, must mark out the period 
when the holy city must arise, and the lands be lot- 
ted off to the twelve tribes in the restoration of 
spiritual Israel. The first measurement must bring 
us to the end of Nebuchadnezzar's seven times ; to 
the fall of the image-beast ; to the resurrection of 
the two witnesses at the end of their prophecy, and 



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to the return of the Church from the wilderness, or 
to the restoration of the inner court. The second 
measurement must carry us seventy-four years ahead 
to the rise of the new, or holy city, when the land 
is to be lotted off to the spiritual Jew, in the resto- 
ration, and to the end of the days mentioned by 
Daniel, when he was to stand in his lot. 

Sec. 2. It will be remembered that, under the 
Mosaic code, as found in the 25th chapter of Levit- 
icus, in addition to the seventh-day Sabbath, there 
was also a seventh-year Sabbath. Then, to proceed 
in the count by weeks, as under the old dispensa- 
tion, would be one clay standing at the head of 
seven days, or a week, of years. Seventy w r eeks, 
then, under this mode of count, w r ould, when mul- 
tiplied by seven, make four hundred and ninety 
years in true count, or in true solar time. This four 
hundred and ninety, then, being one time, when 
multiplied by seven, would be seven times, or thir- 
ty-four hundred and thirty years, or when multiplied 
by three and a half, would make seventeen hundred 
and fifteen years, or a time, times, and half a time. 
Allow the number of weeks given to be seventy- 
eight, we first multiply the seventy-eight by seven, 
which makes five hundred and forty-six ; this is one 
time. Then multiply by seven again, and it makes 
thirty-eight hundred and twenty-two ; this is seven 
times. Or, multiply the last time by three and a 
half, and it makes nineteen hundred and eleven; 
this is a time, times, and half a time. Here, then, 
we see that each forty-ninth day, standing at the 
head of a week, in the proposition, will, when mul- 



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tiplied by forty-nine, meet in the same number with 
the weeks multiplied by seven twice. We will now 
illustrate this proposition in the Sabbatic year. Allow 
the number of weeks to be seventy-three and a half, 
multiply the weeks by seven, and they make five 
hundred and fourteen and a half; this is one time. 
Then multiply by seven again, and it makes thirty- 
six hundred and one ; this is seven times. Or, mul- 
tiply the last time by three and a half, and 
it makes eighteen hundred and three-quarters ; 
this is a time, times, and half a time. It mat- 
ters not how many weeks are given, the rule holds 
good. We would try it in the prophetic year, if 
there was any such a thing; but this is an imagi- 
nary thing. We read of no prophetic year. There 
are but two years — the one is the solar year of three 
hundred and sixty-four days, as marked out by the 
full revolution of the earth upon its axis, and they 
comprise the evening and the morning, and when 
put together, make fifty-two weeks. The other is 
what we call the Sabbatic year of forty-nine weeks, 
or three hundred and forty-three days. The same 
results could be reached, however, through the im- 
aginary prophetic year of three hundred and sixty 
days. From the above explanation, we w T ill have 
no trouble to understand Daniel as to the seventy 
weeks in his ninth chapter. What was the condition 
of things at the time Daniel was here praying to 
God for the desolation of Jerusalem? The Jews 
had transgressed God's statutes and his judgments. 
They had been sent into a seventy years' captivity. 
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years was out. Part of the transgression was then 
finished. "What does Gabriel tell Daniel ? He says : 
"At the beginning of thy supplications the com- 
mandment came forth, and I am come to shew 
thee." Here Gabriel informs Daniel that seventy 
weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy 
holy city. "What for? To finish the transgression. 
The seventy weeks, then, must be added to that 
part of the transgression w T hich had gone before. 
And thus we see that Daniel was measuring by the 
week process, from the beginning of the seventy 
years' captivity to the reign of Christ ; to the end of 
the Jewish age ; to the change of the inner court. 
He was going beyond this : he was measuring from 
the end of the seventy years' captivity to the fall of 
the holy city, where nationality was taken from the 
Jews, in the seventieth year of the Christian era. 
Now, what are we measuring with this rod of John's 
under the new dispensation? We are measuring 
the inner court under the Gentile reign — that is, 
from where Daniel left off, by his week process, to 
the change of the inner court in the restoration. 
Then, what more do we measure by the second span 
of this rod ? We measure from the fall of the holy 
city A. D. 70, to the rise of the new city in the res- 
toration, which is to the end of the days mentioned 
by Daniel, when the land is to be lotted out, and 
Daniel is to stand in his lot. 

Now, when we have obtained the length of John's 
measuring-rod of time, times, and half a time, what 
must we do with it to convince the public mind that 
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show that this rod, when placed at the beginning of 
Christ's spiritual reign, when he was crowned king, 
and made high-priest, four years before the begin- 
ning of the Christian era, as under the present 
count, will reach to the year A. D. 1865. We must 
then set this rod seventy-four years this side, and 
start from the fall of the holy city, when the daily 
sacrifice was taken away from the Jews, and mark 
out a period seventy-four years ahead of us, to the 
rise of the new city, and that must be to the year 
nineteen hundred and thirty-nine of the present 
era, and this must be to the end of the days men- 
tioned by Daniel, when the land is to be lotted off 
to the twelve tribes of spiritual Israel in the resto- 
ration, when Daniel is to stand in his lot. The 
reader will not fail to observe in this measuring-rod 
of time, times, and half a time, the same grand 
proposition that underlies the week process of count, 
while the first count was by weeks, each week stand- 
ing for seven years. The second is by days, each 
one of which being Sabbath-year days, stands for a 
year at the end of the count, as contemplated by 
Ezekiel. Now, to count this period of time, times, 
and half a time, by weeks, we would start out upon 
seventy-seven and one-seventh weeks ; we would mul- 
tiply this by seven, which would make four hundred 
and forty years ; this being one time, when being 
multiplied by three and a half, would make eighteen 
hundred and ninety 3-ears, or a time, times, and 
half a time. Now, to reach this eighteen hundred 
and ninety years, or time, times, and half a time, by 
the seventh-year Sabbath-day process, when twelve 



110 THE TIMES. 

hundred and sixty days are given, is the great puz- 
zle. The truth is, the twelve hundred and sixty 
days, or years, is but two-thirds of the proposition. 
While two-thirds of the time is given, and kept up 
upon the face, the other third is concealed, and 
brought up under the wing. This other third must 
be drawn out, and added to the two-thirds, to make 
the true solar time. "When the prophet gives the 
two-thirds of the true solar time, he only gives the 
time allotted to man, or secular time. Time was di- 
vided under the Mosaic code (Leviticus, 23d and 
25th chapters) into Sabbath and work time. The 
Sabbaths were to be observed as God's time, in 
which man was to serve him. While the Sabbaths 
were to be heaped up to God, man was only to heap 
up these Sabbaths of secular years to himself, as the 
time allotted for him to obtain a temporal support. 
When the prophet gives twelve hundred and sixty 
days — a day for a year — he actually means twelve 
hundred and sixty years of secular time. This em- 
braces all the time allotted to man in the proposi- 
tion. But, to arrive at the true solar time contained 
in the proposition, we must add to this the Sabbath 
time, which God claims as his own time, in which 
man is to serve him. We w r ill now cite you to the 
23d, 24th, and 25th chapters of Leviticus : 

CHAPTER XXIII. 

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto 
them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye 
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are 
my feasts. 



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3 Six clays shall work be done : but the seventh 
day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation ; ye 
shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the 
Lord in all your dwellings. 

4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy con- 
vocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 

5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even 
is the Lord's passover. 

6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is 
the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord : seven 
da}-s ye must eat unleavened bread. 

7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convoca- 
tion : ye shall do no servile work therein. 

8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto 
the Lord seven days : in the seventh day is a holy 
convocation : ye shall do no servile work therein. 

9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto 
them, "When ye be come into the land which I give 
unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye 
shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest 
unto the priest. 

11 And ye shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, 
to be accepted for you : on the morrow after the 
sabbath the priest shall w^ave it. 

12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the 
sheaf a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for 
a burnt-offering unto the Lord. 

13 And the meat-offering thereof shall be two- 
tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offer- 
ing made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savor : 
and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the 
fourth part of a bin. 

14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched 
corn, nor green ears, until the self-same day that ye 
have brought an offering unto your God : it shall be 
a statute for ever throughout your generations in all 
your dwellings. 



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15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow 
after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the 
sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall be 
complete : 

16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sab- 
bath shall ye number fifty days ; and ye shall offer 
a new meat-offering unto the Lord. 

17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two 
wave loaves of two-tenth deals : they shall be of fine 
flour ; they shall be baken with leaven ; they are the 
first-fruits unto the Lord. 

18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs 
without blemish of the first j 7 ear, and one young 
bullock, and two rams : they shall be for a burnt- 
offering unto the Lord, with their meat-offering, and 
their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, 
of sweet savor unto the Lord. 

19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for 
a sin-offering, and two lambs of the first year for a 
sacrifice of peace-offerings. 

20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread 
of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before the Lord, 
with the two lambs : they shall be holy to the Lord 
for the priest. 

21 And ye shall proclaim on the self-same day, that 
it may be a holy convocation unto you : ye shall do 
no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for 
ever in all your dwellings throughout your genera- 
tions. 

22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, 
thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of 
thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather 
any gleaning of thy harvest : thou shalt leave them 
unto the poor, and to the stranger : I am the Lord 
your God. 

23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In 
the seventh month, in the first day of the month, 



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shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of 
trumpets, a holy convocation. 

25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye 
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 

26 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month 
there shall be a day of atonement : it shall be a holy 
convocation unto you ; and ye shall afflict j 7 our 
souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the 
Lord. 

28 And ye shall do no work in that same day : for 
it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for 
you before the Lord your God. 

29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be 
afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from 
among his people. 

30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work 
in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from 
among his people. 

31 Ye shall do no manner of work : it shall be a 
statute for ever throughout your generations in all 
your dwellings. 

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye 
shall afflict your souls : in the ninth day of the month 
at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your 
sabbath. 

33 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The 
fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast 
of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. 

35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation : ye 
shall do no servile work therein. 

36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by 
fire unto the Lord ; on the eighth day shall be a holy 
convocation unto you, and ye shall offer an offering 
made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assem- 
bly ; and ye shall do no servile work therein. 

37 These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye 



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shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an 
offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt-offer- 
ing, and a meat-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offer- 
ings, every thing upon his day: 

38 Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside 
your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all 
your free-will offerings, which ye give unto the 
Lord. 

39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, 
when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye 
shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days : on the 
first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day 
shall be a sabbath. 

40 And ye shall take you on the first day the 
boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and 
the bbughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook ; 
and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven 
days. 

41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord 
seven days in the year : it shall be a statute for ever 
in your generations : ye shall celebrate it in the 
seventh month. 

42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days ; all that 
are Israelites born shall dwell in booths : 

43 That your generations may know that I made 
the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I 
brought them out of the land of Egypt : I am the 
Lord your God. 

44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel 
the feasts of the Lord. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

2 Command the children of Israel, that they 
bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, 
to cause the lamps to burn continually. 

3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the taber- 



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nacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from 
the evening unto the morning before the Lord con- 
tinually : it shall be a statute for ever in your genera- 
tions. 

4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candle- 
stick before the Lord continually. 

5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve 
cakes thereof: two -tenth deals shall be in one 
cake. 

6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a 
row, upon the pure table before the Lord. 

7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each 
row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, 
even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 

8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the 
Lord continually, being taken from the children of 
Israel by an everlasting covenant. 

9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' ; and they 
shall eat it in the holy place : for it is most holy 
unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire 
by a perpetual statute. 

10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, w T hose 
father was an Egyptian, went out among the chil- 
dren of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman 
and a man of Israel strove together in the camp ; 

11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed 
the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they 
brought him unto Moses : and his mother's name ' 
was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of 
Dan: 

12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of 
the Lord might be shewed them. 

13 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 

14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without 
the camp; and let all that heard him lay their 
hands upon his head, and let all the congregation 
stone him. 

15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of 



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Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall 
bear his sin. 

16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the 
Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the 
congregation shall certainly stone him : as well the 
stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he 
blasphemeth the name of the LOJRD, shall be put 
to death. 

17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be 
put to death. 

18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; 
beast for beast. 

19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; 
as he hath done, so shall it be done to him ; 

20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; 
as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be 
done to him again. 

21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore 
it : and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to 
death. 

22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for 
the stranger, as for one of your own country : for I 
am the Lord your God. 

23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, 
that they should bring forth him that had cursed out 
of the camp, and stone him with stones : and the 
children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. 

CHAPTER XXV. 

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, 
saying, 

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto 
them, When ye come into the land which I give you, 
then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord. 

3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years 
thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the 
fruit thereof: 



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4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of 
rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou 
shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 

5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy 
harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes 
of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto 
the land. 

6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for 
you ; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, 
and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that 
sojourneth with thee, 

7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in 
thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 

8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years 
unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space 
of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee 
forty and nine years. 

9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee 
to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in 
the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet 
sound throughout all vour land. 

10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and pro- 
claim liberty throughout all the land unto all the 
inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; 
and ye shall return every man unto his possession, 
and ye shall return every man unto his family. 

11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you : 
ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of 
itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine un- 
dressed. 

12 For it is the jubilee ; it shall be holy unto you ; 
ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 

13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every 
man unto his possession. 

14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or 
buyest aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not 
oppress one another : 

15 According to the number of years after the 



118 THE TIMES. 

jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and accord- 
ing unto the number of years of the fruit he shall 
sell unto thee. 

16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt 
increase the price thereof, and according to the few- 
ness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it : for 
according to the number of the years of the fruits doth 
he sell unto thee. 

17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another ; but 
thou shalt fear thy God : for I am the Lord y uor God. 

18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep 
my judgments, and do them : and ye shall dwell in 
the land in safety. 

19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall 
eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 

20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the 
seventh year ? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather 
in our increase : 

21 Then I will command my blessing upon you 
in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for 
three years. 

22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet 
of old fruit until the ninth year ; until her fruits 
come in ye shall eat of the old store. 

23 The land shall not be sold for ever : for the 
land is mine ; for ye are strangers and sojourners 
with me. 

24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall 
grant a redemption for the land. 

25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold 
away some of his possession, and if any of his kin 
come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which 
his brother sold. 

26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and 
himself be able to redeem it ; 

27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, 
and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he 
sold it ; that he may return unto his possession. 



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28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then 
that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him 
that hath bought it until the year of jubilee : and 
in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return 
unto his possession. 

29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled 
city, then he may redeem it within a whole year 
after it is sold ; within a full year may he redeem it. 

30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of 
a full year, then the house that is in the walled 
city shall be established for ever to him that bought 
it throughout his generations : it shall not go out in 
the jubilee. 

31 But the houses of the villages which have no 
wall round about them shall be counted as the fields 
of the country : they may be redeemed, and they 
shall go out in the jubilee. 

32 .Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and 
the houses of the cities of their possession, may the 
Levites redeem at any time. 

33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then 
the house that was sold, and the city of his posses- 
sion, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the 
houses of the cities of the Levites are their posses- 
sion among the children of Israel. 

34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may 
not be sold ; for it is their perpetual possession. 

35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen 
in decay with thee ; then thou shalt relieve him : 
yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he 
may live with thee. 

36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase ; but 
fear thy God ; that thy brother may live with thee. 

37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usu- 
ry, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 

38 I am the Lord your God, which brought you 
forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the 
land of Canaan, and to be your God. 



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39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be 
waxen poor, and be sold unto thee ; thou shalt not 
compel him to serve as a bond-servant : 

40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he 
shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year 
of jubilee. 

41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and 
his children with him, and shall return unto his own 
family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall 
he return. 

42 For they are my servants, which I brought 
forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be 
sold as bondmen. 

43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor : but 
shall fear thy God. 

44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which 
thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are 
round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen 
and bondmaids. 

45 Moreover, of the children of the strangers that 
do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of 
their families that are with you, which they begat in 
your land : and they shall be your possession. 

46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for 
your children after you, to inherit them for a posses- 
sion ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over 
your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not 
rule one over another with rigor. 

47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by 
thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, 
and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by 
thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family ; 

48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed 
again ; one of his brethren may redeem him : 

49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may re- 
deem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his 
family may redeem him ; or if he be able, he may 
redeem himself. 



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50 And he shall reckon with him that bought 
him from the year that he was sold to him unto the 
year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be 
according unto the number of years, according to 
the time of a hired servant shall it be with him. 

51 If there be yet many years behind, according 
unto them he shall give again the price of his re- 
demption out of the money that he was bought for. 

52 And if there remain but few years unto the 
year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and 
according unto his years shall he give him again the 
price of his redemption. 

53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with 
him : and the other shall not rule with rigor over him 
in thy sight. 

54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then 
he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and 
his children with him. 

55 Tor unto me the children of Israel are ser- 
vants ; they are my servants whom I brought forth 
out of the land of Egypt : I am the Lord your God. 

From the following table it will be seen that the 
time that God requires man to serve him, amounts 
to about one-third of all time. That my two-thirds 
rule is right, I entertain no doubt. Whether the 
following is the reason of it, may be questioned. I 
only offer it for what it is worth : 



122 


THE 


TIMES. 




SABBATH-DAYS, 


WOEK TIME. 


ALL TIME. 


1 


52 


312 


364 


1 


52 


312 


364 


1 


52 


312 


364 


1 


52 


312 


364 


1 


52 


312 


364 


1 


52 


312 


364 


1 


364 
676 


000 


364 


7 


1372 


2548 


7 


7 


7 


7 


49 


4732 


13104 


17836 


1 Jubilee. 


364 
5096 


000 


346 


50 years. 


13104 


18200 




966 


966 


00000 



6062 



12138 



18200 



Sec. 3. First, every seventh day is a Sabbath. 
Second, every seventh year is a Sabbath-year. Third, 
the fiftieth year is a jubilee. Then the feasts and 
days to be annually observed, viz., the Passover, the 
feast of unleavened bread of seven davs, the wave- 
offering, the blowing of trumpets, the feast of tab- 
ernacles of seven days, and memorial of booths of 
seven days — in all, amounting to about twenty-three 
days in each year. These twenty-three days cannot 
fall upon labor time, only in forty-two years of the 
fifty, since the seven seventh years and the fiftieth 
year are already appropriated to God's service. Then 
multiply these twenty-three days by forty- two years 
in which they could fall upon labor time, and it 
makes nine hundred and sixty-six days, to be taken 



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from labor time, not already appropriated, and added 
to Sabbath time, and it leaves the time standing 
thus : Sabbaths, six thousand and sixty-two days ; 
labor time, twelve thousand one hundred and thirty- 
eight days; the true solar time, eighteen thousand and 
two hundred clays, or sixteen and two-third years of 
Sabbath time ; thirty-three and one-third years work 
time — in all, fifty years. Thus showing, within a 
few days, that one-third of the true solar time is to 
be appropriated to the service of God, and, eonse- 
qently, Sabbath time. Now, when the prophet no- 
tifies man of the day s, or years, which he has before 
him, the third of the proposition, which is Sabbath 
time, must be added, to arrive at the true solar time. 
We must then add to the twelve hundred and sixty 
clays, or years, half of its quantity, which makes 
eighteen hundred and ninety years. This eighteen 
hundred and ninety days, or years, then, when 
scaled down by four days in the year, brings it down 
to eighteen hundred and sixty-nine years and eigh- 
ty-four days. This, then, is the time, times, and 
half a time, and this was the measuring-rocl given 
to John when he was commanded to rise and meas- 
ure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that 
worship therein ; or, in short, when he was com- 
manded to measure the inner court. But we are 
asked by what authority we scale this eighteen hun- 
dred and ninety years clown to eighteen hundred 
and sixty-nine years and eighty-four days. In reply 
to which we cite our readers to the twenty-fourth 
chapter of Matthew, from which we extract : Here 
" the disciples of Christ came to him privately, say- 



124 THE TIME S. 

ing, "What shall be the sign of thy coming ?" After 
many other things in the twenty-first and twenty- 
second verses, he adds : " For then shall be great 
tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of 
the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And 
except those days should be shortened, there should 
no flesh be saved; but for the elect's sake those 
days shall be shortened." Now, remember that we 
are by two steps with this rod spanning the entire 
period of the days mentioned by Daniel, to the end 
of these wonders. Then, if these days are to be 
shortened for the elect's sake, we have no other 
period in which to shorten them. We do not shorten 
them by a prophetic year, only in the imagination. 
We shorten them by four days in the year by mul- 
tiplying the eighteen hundred and ninety years by 
three hundred and sixty, and dividing by three hun- 
dred and sixty-four. Now, if it was not for the dif- 
ficulty of the four years that are lost in the present 
count of the Christian era, we should have no farther 
trouble. When you reflect a moment, you will see 
that this eighteen hundred and sixty-nine years must 
expire in eighteen hundred and sixty-five of our 
present count, which is, in reality, eighteen hundred 
and sixty-nine, upon the supposition that our count 
had commenced at the proper time. Thus you see 
by our two-thirds rule, we make the time, times, and 
half a time meet its exact fulfillment in the year 
eighteen hundred and sixty-five in our present count 
of the Christian era. Then, at that time, the beast 
must arise. This beast being the eighth head in the 
Roman Empire, and of the seven Catholic heads, 



THE TIMES. 125 

must be the image of Cresar, or the beast that took 
the dragon's seat, since we show that he is a lineal 
descendant. He must be Nebuchadnezzar's branch- 
root, since Caesar was the eleventh horn that sprang 
up among the dragon-horns, and he descends from 
Ceesar. Then, being in a national point of view a 
root of Nebuchadnezzar, he must be the old king 
restored, and, consequently, the feet and toes of the 
great image which represented these four great 
kingdoms. Then we show you that Maximilian arose 
at this time. In Daniel's eleventh chapter, under 
the leagues and conflicts between the king of the 
North and the king of the South, we have Csesar 
pointed out too plain to be misunderstood — thirty- 
sixth verse — we extract : "And the kins; shall do ac- 
cording to his will ; and he shall exalt himself, and 
magnify himself above every god, and shall speak 
marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall 
prosper till the indignation be accomplished ; for 
that that is determined shall be done." Verse 
thirty-eighth : " But in his estate shall he honor 
the God of forces ; and a god whom his fathers 
knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and 
with precious stones, and pleasant things." This 
we take to mean the false prophet, or the god of the 
earth. Verse forty-fifth: "And he shall plant the 
tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the 
glorious holy mountain ; yet he shall come to his 
end, and none shall help him." Maximilian had no 
palace ; he was merely tabernacling. He planted 
his tabernacle upon the American continent, in the 
land of unwalled villages, in the glorious holy 



126 THE TIMES. 

mountain, where spiritual Israel is to be restored. 
Maximilian came to his end, and none to help him. 
The temporal power of the Pope was too weak to 
aid him. France withdrew her armies from his 
support, and there was none to help him. His king- 
dom was to be divided. The kingdom of Maxi- 
milian was divided from the time he set his foot 
upon this continent until his Empire fell. It was to 
be partly strong and partly broke ; to be mixed with 
iron and clay. His Empire united in it the iron 
element of monarchy and the clay element of de- 
mocracy. His time was to be short. He was to 
continue but a short space. Where is he now ? He 
is fallen, after a brief career of less than five years. 
He was to be the feet and toes of the great image, 
which was to be smitten by the little stone. Is he 
not already smitten ? But the dead bodies of the 
two witnesses were to lie unburied in the street of 
the great city three years and a half, which means, 
according to my rule of interpretation, near five 
years. Here, then, we have the period of the late 
American war measured with great accuracy. The 
inner court was here changed. The Church had re- 
turned from the wilderness. These two witnesses 
revived, and stand to-day active and operative. The 
beast has lost all power over the people of God ; his 
time is out. "When Nebuchadnezzar was loosed, he 
saw himself restored, as God had promised, and he 
knew that God ruled in the kingdom of men. He 
saw the Jewish heaven and the millennial heaven 
meet, and blend, as it were, together, and he knew 
that the heavens ruled. We then pick up this same 



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rod of time, times, and half a time, and start out 
from the fall of the holy city, and it must reach sev- 
enty-four years ahead, to the rise of the new city 
in the restoration, when the land is to be lotted 
out to the twelve tribes of spiritual Israel, and to 
the end of the days mentioned by Daniel, when he 
was to stand in his lot. This, then, upon my theory, 
must be in the year nineteen hundred and thirty- 
nine of the Christian era, as under the present 
count. If we place the seventy-four years upon 
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, it carries us to 
nineteen hundred and forty-three ; but if we place it 
upon eighteen hundred and sixty-five, where the first 
measurement met its fulfillment, it carries us to nine- 
teen hundred and thirty-nine of the Christian era, 
as under present count, where it must meet its ful- 
fillment. This last seventy-four years, then, is the 
time of the end when the prophecies were to be un- 
derstood by the good and the wise, and God is no less 
honored in the establishment of the great truth, that 
through the foolish things of the world the wise 
should be confounded. 

Sec. 4. We will now proceed to review the twelfth 
chapter of Daniel, from which we extract, beginning 
at the fifth verse : "Then I Daniel looked, and, be- 
hold, there stood other two, the one on this side of 
the bank of the river, and the other on that side of 
the bank of the river. And one said to the man 
clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the 
river, How long shall it be to the end of these won- 
ders ? And I heard the man clothed in linen, which 
was upon the waters of the river, when he held up 



128 THE TIMES. 

his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and 
sware by him that liveth for ever, that it shall be for 
a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have 
accomplished to scatter the power of the holy peo- 
ple, all these things shall be finished." Here Daniel 
says: "And I heard, but I understood not; then 
said I, my Lord, what shall be the end of these 
things ? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel ; for the 
words are closed up and sealed till the time of the 
end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and 
tried ; but the wicked shall do wickedly ; and none 
of the wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall 
understand. And from the time that the daily sac- 
rifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that 
maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand 
two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that 
waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred 
and five-and-thirty days. But go thou thy way till 
the end be ; for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot 
at the end of the days." We first turn your atten- 
tion to the fact that the first question asked was, 
"How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?" 
The answer by the man clothed in linen was, "That 
it shall be for a time, times, and a half." Daniel 
then says : "And I heard, but I understood not ; 
then said I, my Lord, what shall be the end of 
these things ?" The time, times, and a half, was 
given as the answer to the first question. Daniel 
not understanding this term, prayed to the Lord to 
know what it meant, and the answer here given is 
in explanation of the time, times, and a half. Now 
mark, both questions were asked as to the end of 



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these wonders, or as to the end of these things. The 
answer of thirteen hundred and thirty-five days 
must cover the whole time, from the time that the 
daily sacrifice should be taken away, and the abom- 
ination that maketh desolate set up, to the end of 
these wonders, or to the end of these things. Then 
passing by the thousand two hundred and ninety 
days, and by the thirteen hundred days, so signifi- 
cantly alluded to by Daniel, as he passed over it, we 
will first make this measurement to the thirteen 
hundred and thirty-five days, which is the end of 
the wonders, or things. All agree that the daily sac- 
rifice was taken away, and the abomination of deso- 
lation, spoken of by Daniel, was set up at the fall 
of Jerusalem, in the seventieth year of the present 
era, which actually was seventy-four years from the 
beginning of the reign of Christ. "We proved be- 
fore, by the second span of John's rod, that to set 
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine years upon seventy- 
four, would carry us to nineteen hundred and forty- 
three in fact, but would be met in our nineteen hun- 
dred and thirty-nine. 

Now, since we have arrived at the end of the days 
in solar count in our nineteen hundred and thirty- 
nine, it follows that the thirteen hundred and thirty- 
five days, or years, in Sabbatic time, in which Daniel 
was here counting, must be four years short of the 
measuring-rod. We then add to thirteen hundred 
and thirty-five Sabbatic years half its quantity, and 
it makes two thousand and two years. Reduce this 
to solar time, and scale it down by the prophetic 
scale, and it actual Iv makes eighteen hundred and 



130 THE TIMES. 

sixty-five years — just four years short of the rod. 
Then set this eighteen hundred and sixty-five upon 
seventy-four years, and it meets the first measure- 
ment in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine 
of the present era. Thus we establish, beyond con- 
troversy, the correctness of the rule, and at ,the 
same time point you infallibly to the end of the 
days when the new and holy city is to spring up, the 
lands to be lotted off, and Daniel is to stand in his 
lot. 

Believing that we are fully understood here, we 
will now turn our attention to the intermediate 
periods — that is, to the twelve hundred and ninety 
days, and to the thirteen hundred days, so signifi- 
cantly alluded to by Daniel, as he passed over it. 
Daniel says : " There shall be a thousand two hun- 
dred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth 
and cometh/ ' etc. Here we conclude, from this pe- 
culiar expression, that this is the beginning of 
troublous times, since he is blessed who waiteth and 
cometh, to the thirteen hundred and thirtv-five 
days. It is not said, Blessed is Daniel, or any of the 
saints, but " Blessed is he whomsoever he may be, ,, 
etc. We then take up the twelve hundred and 
ninety days, as two-thirds of the proposition in Sab- 
batic years, in which Daniel was here counting: 
add to this half of its quantity, which is six hun- 
dred and forty-five, and it makes nineteen hundred 
and thirty-five Sabbatic years. "We then reduce this 
to solar time, and scale it down, as before, by the 
prophetic scale, and it makes eighteen hundred and 
three years; then set this upon seventy-four years, 



THE TIMES. 131 

and it carries us to eighteen hundred and seventy- 
seven years in fact, but meets its fulfillment in 
eighteen hundred and seventy-three of our present 
count. We then turn our attention to the thirteen 
hundred days. This is the period when the outer 
court is to be changed, or restored to the spiritual 
Jew. This is the period when the Ancient of days 
is to sit, when he is to set his judgment and open 
his books. This is when he shall set up his kingdom 
upon the ruin of human governments. This is the 
commencement of the thousand of years of the 
millennial age for the cleansing of the Church, and 
must commence immediately after the great battle 
under the seventh sound, after the fall of Babylon. 
Now, why did not Daniel measure this period ? For 
two good reasons. The first was, he was commanded 
not to measure the outer court ; and the second was, 
that his rod of time, times, and a half would not 
measure it. How, then, do we come at this period ? 
We connect what Daniel says in regard to the 
cleansing of the Church with John's mention of the 
thousand years' millennium, and we find no trouble 
in arriving at the change of the outer court. In the 
eighth chapter of Daniel, beginning at the thirteenth 
verse, Daniel says : " Then I heard one saint speak- 
ing, and another saint said unto that certain saint 
which spake, How long shall be the vision concern- 
ing the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of des- 
olation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to 
be trodden under foot ? And he said unto me, Unto 
two thousand and three hundred days; then shall 
the sanctuary be cleansed. " Now, it will not escape 



132 THE TIMES. 

the notice of the reader that this answer here given 
was not a direct answer to the question put. The 
question asked was as to the daily sacrifice, and the 
transgression of desolation ; or, in other words, as 
to how long the sanctuary and the host should be 
trodden under foot. The direct question was here 
waived, but in lieu, this saint that was speaking, in- 
formed the other saint, that unto two thousand and 
three hundred days then should the sanctuary be 
cleansed. In the latter part of the nineteenth chap- 
ter of Eevelation, when John was speaking of the 
word of God as riding upon the white horse, and 
his army, after speaking of the Armageddon battle, 
and the fall of Babylon, he goes on in this strain, 
19th, 20th, and 21st verses: "And I saw the beast, 
and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gath- 
ered together to make war against him that sat on the 
horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, 
and with him the false prophet that wrought mira- 
cles before him, with which he deceived them that 
had received the mark of the beast, and them that 
worshiped his image. These both were cast alive 
into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the 
remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat 
upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his 
mouth; and all the fowls were filled with their 
flesh/ ' Here, after speaking of the fall of Babylon, 
John brings us to the battle of that great day of 
God Almighty, which is to be fought under the sev- 
enth sound, or to the battle of Gog, in the land of 
unwalled villages, or to the battle of Armageddon, to 
where the great city should be divided into three 



THE TIMES. 133 

parts, and the cities of the nations should fall, 
to where human kings and their governments shall 
fall, and to where the remnant shall be slain by the 
sword of the Spirit. This, then, was to the end of 
human governments under their rotten systems, and 
to when the sword is to be beaten into plowshares 
and pruning-hooks ; to the change of the outer 
court in the restoration of the spiritual Jew ; to the 
commencement of the millennium. Now, what 
does John say, immediately in the twentieth chap- 
ter of Kevelation : "And I saw an angel come down 
from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit 
and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on 
the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and 
Satan, and bound him a thousand years." 

Sec. 5. Now, when we bring you to the thirteen 
hundred days, where the Ancient of days is to sit, 
to the change of the outer court, do we not bring 
you to the beginning of the millennium, when the 
sword of the flesh is to be used no more, but the 
sword of the Spirit? Then, if from this to the end 
of the millennium, when the Church will be cleansed, 
is a thousand years, do we not explain Daniel, as to 
the two thousand and three hundred days, as sure 
as that thirteen hundred and one thousand make 
twenty-three hundred ? 

"We will then proceed to mark out this most im- 
portant period of thirteen hundred days, or years. 
Thirteen hundred, then, being two-thirds, add to it 
half its quantity, and it makes nineteen hundred 
and fifty Sabbatic years, in which Daniel was. here 
counting. This nineteen hundred and fifty Sabbatic 



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years, when reduced to solar time, make eighteen 
hundred and thirty-seven solar years, and a fraction 
of one hundred and eighty-two days. This, when 
scaled down, by four days in the year, make eighteen 
hundred and seventeen years, and a fraction of one 
hundred and fourteen days. Then add to this the 
seventy-four years to the fall of Jerusalem, and it 
carries us to eighteen hundred and ninety-one years 
of true count. This being four years too far in 
present count, must meet its fulfillment in the year 
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven of the Christian 
era, as under present count. We see, then, that the 
times are right upon us. "We have shown you that 
this great image, which was introduced to represent 
the career of human governments, has been smitten 
upon its feet and toes already. Then, just as sure 
as it has been smitten, that sure it must and will be 
utterly destroyed. 

Sec. 6. The millennial age, then, must be a glo- 
rious period. That we will then fall back upon 
the laws of Moses for our national government, 
and upon the laws of Christ for our Church gov- 
ernment, is as clear to my mind as that they re- 
vived and stood upon their feet. Why should they 
ascend to the millennial heaven, at the restoration 
of the inner court, if either the one or the other 
should be a dead letter ? Then, when we fall back 
upon these for our government, let him that wishes 
to know the status of any thing, or any thing else, 
consult the two books of divine origin. Every thing 
in the law of Moses, which was not repealed by 
Christ, will be in full force and effect. We will 



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then keep a Sabbath-year for the rest of our lands, 
and be free from rust and smut. We will then ob- 
serve the fiftieth year as a year of Jubilee, in which 
to restore the broken fortunes of the poor and un- 
fortunate. "With the lands lotted out into smaller 
quantities, under the new and improved system of 
agriculture, our country will flourish and blossom 
like the rose. John says immediately after the 
devil was chained, that he " saw thrones, and they 
sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; 
and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for 
the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and 
which had not worshiped the beast, neither his 
image, neither had received his mark upon their 
foreheads, or in their hands ; and they lived and 
reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest 
of the dead lived not again until the thousand years 
were finished. This is the first resurrection." This is, 
evidently, the period when the twelve apostles are 
to sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel, and is the first resurrection. Here 
John " saw the souls of them that were beheaded 
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, 
and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his 
image, neither had received his mark upon their 
foreheads, or in their hands ; and they lived and 
reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest 
of the dead lived not again until the thousand years 
were finished. This is the first resurrection. " The 
idea is, we believe, generally entertained that Christ 
is to make his second appearance upon earth at the 
beginning of the millennium, and that those of the 



136 THE TIMES. 

first resurrection are to reign with him a thousand 
years upon earth. We take a different view of the 
matter. In the first place, Christ took his position 
as king, high-priest, and lawgiver, after his body 
had been made spiritual, and we have no such idea 
as that he will again assume a mortal body. To live 
and reign in person in the Church, presupposes that 
he must subsist in a mortal body, or that the Church 
must be cleansed and made spiritual, as a bride 
adorned for her husband. The period of the thou- 
sand years of the millennium being the period for 
the cleansing of the Church, it would not be rational 
to suppose that the Church would be made spiritual 
in body at the beginning of this period. We would 
rather suppose that those of the first resurrection 
were to reign a thousand years with Christ in the 
upper kingdom. John says, in the 11th, 12th, 13th, 
and 14th verses : "And I saw a great white throne, 
and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth 
and the heaven fled away ; and there was found no 
place for them. And I saw the dead, small and 
great, stand before God ; and the books were opened ; 
and another book was opened, which is the book of 
life; and the dead were judged out of those things 
which were written in the books, according to their 
works. And the sea gave up the dead which were 
in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead 
which were in them; and they were judged every 
man according to their works. And death and hell 
were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second 
death." Then, in the 21st chapter of Revelation, 
John " saw a new heaven and a new earth ; for the 



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first heaven and the first earth were passed away ; 
and there was no more sea. And I John saw the 
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God 
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her 
husband. ,, This is, evidently, the period when the 
Church is cleansed and made spiritual in body, and 
united to Christ at his second coming. In the second 
resurrection, as in the first, it appears to my mind, 
that they are raised and brought up to God, and 
after the second resurrection our minds are brought 
to bear upon the general judgment in that great day 
of God Almighty. 

What a solemn thought ! What a vast assembly ! 
There stands, in the immediate presence of the true 
and living .God, the assembled dead of over six 
thousand years, to hear their final doom. Here the 
human family of every generation stands at the bar 
of Eternal Justice to answer and render an account 
for the deeds done in the body. The great day of 
God's wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand? 
The finally impenitent will be lost, world without 
end, while those who have served God, and walked 
uprightly, will be met with the welcome plaudit, 
"Enter thou into the joys of thy Lord." All sor- 
rows will cease. The tears will be wiped from their 
eyes, and they will enter into that house of many 
mansions, made without hands, eternal in the heav- 
ens, where we shall know even as we are known. 
Happy thought ! 



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CHAPTER I. 

Section 1. Introduction. — Section 2. Review of the Image. — Sec- 
tion 3. Review of the Dragon. — Section 4. Eeview of the Little 
Horn. — Section 5. Keview of the Woman and Man-child. — 
Section 6. Keview of the Beast. — Section 7. Keview of the False 
Prophet. — Section 8. Keview of the Image-beast. — Section 9. 
Review of Armageddon battle and Millennium. — Section 10. 
Review of the Restoration of the Jews. — Section 11. Review of 
the Stone Kingdom.— Section 12. Review of the Spirituality of 

this Kingdom. 

• 

Section 1. "While I designed the preceding trea- 
tise upon the Prophecies to be strictly argumenta- 
tive, I only introduced a few proofs, with short argu- 
ments upon each subject, in order that my read- 
ers might at once catch my ideas without having 
to labor through a lengthy and cumbrous routine of 
matter, and with the farther view to lay it before the 
public in pamphlet form. Finding, at the close of 
the work, that it contains rather too much for a 
pamphlet of ordinary size, and yet not enough to 
make a respectable-sized book; and since I have 

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had the work stereotyped, I have concluded to write 
a supplement to the main work, and to offer this my 
first chapter in the first edition, with a view to add 
other chapters hereafter when I may wish to publish 
another edition. In this chapter I propose to en- 
large my arguments upon some of the subjects al- 
ready treated upon, and also to review positions 
assumed by others, and to place them in contrast 
with my own, that the reader may determine which, 
if either, is right. 

Sec. 2. In the first place, I took the position that 
the great image represented human governments 
under human forms, as predicted by the prophets, 
to be illustrated under four universal kingdoms 
which were to arise. The first was to be the golden 
head, the second the silver, the third the brazen, and 
the fourth the iron and clay. 

I pointed you to the Assyrian, the Medo-Persian, 
the Grecian, and the Roman kingdoms, (all of which 
possessed universal dominion,) as the four kingdoms 
thus alluded to by the prophets. This image was to 
be smitten by the little stone upon its feet and toes, 
which were to be composed of iron and clay. In 
the progress of these four kingdoms thus repre- 
sented by this image, we find in the first place a well- 
defined and fully developed dragon, with seven 
heads and ten horns. Secondly, we discover a little 
horn, which, in his magnified proportions, is repre- 
sented as a beast with seven heads and ten horns. 
Thirdly, we have developed an image-beast which 
was to be superinduced and set upon his empire by 
the false prophet with seven (image Catholic) heads 



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with ten (image) horns. John speaks of the dragon 
as the second wonder iii the 12th chapter of Reve- 
lation, lie saw the beast that took the dragon's 
seat rise up out of the sea, as described in the 13th 
chapter of Revelation. Then, after the rise of the 
false prophet, in the 17th chapter of Revelation, he 
describes the rise of the (image) beast with his seven 
heads and ten horns. Now, while a government 
must strictly be considered the head out of which 
the horn must arise, or spring up, yet the first king 
or dynasty that arises to power in a government 
may be called a head, as being the head of that gov- 
ernment — as Nebuchadnezzar was called the golden 
head of the image. We must perceive, then, that 
no government can have more than its first king 
who can be called a head. This first king is no less 
a horn of power because he is the head. Now, after 
this first king or dynasty falls, another horn of power 
may arise in the person of a new king out of a dif- 
ferent house, but he cannot be called a head. Nei- 
ther can any one that ascends the throne, being mere- 
ly in the line of descent, be called a horn of power, 
otherwise the dragon would have had many horns. 

Now, with this definition of heads and horns, 
which you will find to be fully sustained by the lan- 
guage of Holy Writ, we can have no trouble to point 
out the dragon, with his seven heads and ten horns, 
in the Jewish age. 

Sec. 8. Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, and Alexander 
the Great are the first three heads of the dragon ; 
the four first kings that arose in the four govern- 
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make the other four, which in all make the seven 
dragon-heads. Now, allow these seven kings to be 
also horns of power, and then add the two kings 
that sat upon the thrones of Media and Persia, 
would make nine horns ; then add to this list King 
Herod the Great, who having arisen outside of the 
royal family of Judah, became the tenth horn of the 
dragon. Being then the last dragon-horn, he be- 
came the tail of the dragon, with which he drew the 
third part of the stars of heaven. It will be remem- 
bered that it was under the reign of this Herod and 
his descendants in Judea that the apostles and early 
Christians were persecuted and beheaded. It was 
Herod the tetrarch, the son of this King Herod, that 
beheaded John the Baptist. 

Sec. 4. Now, I invite the attention of the reader 
to the 7th chapter of Daniel, and to the 7th and 8th 
verses : "After this I saw in the night visions, and 
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and 
strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: 
it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the 
residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from 
all the beasts that were before it ; and it had ten 
horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there 
came up among them another little horn, before 
whom there were three of the first horns plucked up 
by the roots; and, behold, in this horn were eyes 
like the eyes of man, and a mouth that speaketh 
great things/ ' I next invite you to the interpreta- 
tion of this vision in the latter part of the same 
chapter, 16th verse : " I came near unto one of them 
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So he told me, and made me know the interpre- 
tation of the things." Verse 17: "These great 
beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall 
arise out of the earth," etc. Verse 19: "Then I 
would know the truth of the fourth beast," etc. 
Verse 20 : "And of the ten horns that were in his 
head, and of the other which came up, (the little 
horn,) and before whom three fell; even of that 
horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very 
great things," etc. Verse 23: "Thus he said, The 
fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon 
earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and 
shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, 
and break it in pieces." Verse 24: "And the ten 
horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall 
arise ; and another shall arise after them, (the little 
horn,) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he 
shall subdue three kings." Verse 25: "And he 
(the little horn) shall speak great words against the 
Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High, and think to change times and laws; 
and they (the saints) shall be given into his hand 
until a time and times and the dividing of time," 
etc. 

I now invite your attention to Daniel's vision of 
the ram and he-goat, as found in the 8th chapter of 
Daniel, 8th verse : " Therefore the he-goat waxed 
very great ; and when he was strong, the great horn 
was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones 
toward the four winds of heaven." Verse9: "And out 
of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed 
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the east, and toward the pleasant land." Verse 
10 : "And it (the little horn) waxed great, even 
to the host of heaven ; and it cast down some 
of the host and of the stars to the ground, and 
stamped upon them." Verse 11: "Yea, he (the 
little horn) magnified himself even to the prince of 
the host, and by him (the little horn) the daily sacri- 
fice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary 
was cast down," etc. 

I now invite you to the interpretation of this vision 
in the same chapter, 20th verse : " The ram which 
thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media 
and Persia." Verse 21: "And the rough goat is 
the king of Grecia; and the great horn that is be- 
tween his eyes is the first king," (Alexander.) Verse 
22 : " Now that being broken, whereas four stood 
up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the 
nation, but not in his power." Verse 23: "And in the 
latter time of their kingdom, when the transgres- 
sors are come to the full, a king of fierce counte- 
nance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand 
up." Verse 24: "And his power shall be mighty, but 
not by his own power; and he shall destroy won- 
derfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall 
destroy the mighty and the holy people." Verse 
25 : "And through his policy also he shall cause 
craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify 
himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy 
many : he shall also stand up against the Prince of 
princes, but he shall be broken without hand," etc. 

This king, then, of fierce countenance, and under- 
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Daniel's description of him is the interpretation of 
the vision as to the ram and the he-goat, and the little 
horn. Now mark that Daniel, in his vision of the 
fourth beast, (the Roman Empire,) where he first 
mentions the little horn, says that he had a mouth 
speaking great things. Then, in the interpretation 
of this vision, where the little horn is mentioned 
the second time, it is said that he shall speak great 
words against the Most High, and shall wear out 
the saints of the Most High, and think to change 
times and laws; and that they (the saints) shall be 
given into his hand until a time and times and the 
dividing of time, etc. Then, again, in Daniel's 
vision of the ram and the he-goat, where the little 
horn is mentioned the third time, it is said that he 
waxed great, even to the host of heaven ; yea, he 
magnified himself even to the prince of the host, 
and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and 
the place of his sanctuary was cast down. This, 
then, refers to the fall of Jerusalem, the place of 
God's sanctuary. Then, again, in the interpretation 
of this vision of the ram and rough goat, the little horn 
is described as a king of fierce countenance, and 
understanding dark sentences. It is here said of 
him that he shall magnify himself in his heart, and 
shall destroy many. He shall also stand up against 
the Prince of princes, etc. 

I now invite your attention to the 11th chapter of 
Daniel, to the leagues and conflicts between the 
king of the north and the king of the south, 31st 
verse : "And arms shall stand on his part, and they 

shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall 
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take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall 
place the abomination that maketh desolate.' ' 
Verse 36 : "And this king shall do according 
to his own will; and he shall exalt himself, and 
magnify himself above every god," etc. Verse 
38 : "And he shall honor a strange god whom his 
fathers knew nothing about." Verse 45 : "And he 
shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the 
seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall 
come to his end, and none shall help him," etc. 
Now, where did this little horn — this king of fierce 
countenance, and understanding dark sentences — 
this willful king, that was to honor the strange god 
or false prophet with gold, and silver, and precious 
stones, and pleasant things — this king that was to 
magnify himself to the prince of the host, and take 
away the daily sacrifice, and prostrate the place of 
the sanctuary — this king that was to domineer over 
the saints for a time and times and the dividing of 
time — where, I ask, did he arise? He came up 
among the ten dragon-horns. He came out of one 
of the four powers that arose upon the fall of the 
Grecian monarchy. "When, then, did the Grecian 
monarchy fall, or rather the four governments that 
stood up out of that nation ? They fell before the 
birth of Christ, and before the Roman Empire 
formed its distinctive universal character. JSTow, to 
place the rise of this little horn after the rise of ten 
horns in the line of descent in the Roman princes, 
would bring him down seventeen or eighteen hun- 
dred years this side of the rise of the Roman mon- 
archy. Then, how could he have arisen among the 



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dragon-horns, and out of one of the governments of 
Alexander's successors ? But again, this little horn 
was to take away the daily sacrifice, and to cast 
down the place of the sanctuary ; and not only this, 
but he was to place the abomination that was to 
make desolate. "When, then, was the daily sacrifice 
taken away, and the place of the sanctuary cast 
down ? "We are informed that this happened A.D. 
70, under Titus Ctesar, and the abomination of des- 
olation was then placed. Now, to place the rise of 
this little horn this side of the fall of the holy city, 
presupposes that the holy city must be built up 
again, and the daily sacrifice remstituted merely to 
be cast down again, which, to my mind, is superla- 
tive nonsense. Now, to restore the Jews as a nation 
to their former country, what for? To live and re- 
main in peace ? No ; but to build up their temple 
again to be prostrated ; after which I suppose, then, 
they are to be restored again. Thus you see, upon 
this theory, that the Jews are to be yet twice re- 
stored. The better way is to abandon this wild 
theory, and to take a plain, common-sense, scriptu- 
ral view of the subject. 

Sec. 5. We then revert to the 12th chapter of Rev- 
elation, to John's two wonders. The first was a 
woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her 
feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. 
This woman is generally believed to represent the 
Church of Christ, the twelve stars in the diadem 
having allusion to the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. 
The second wonder was the great red dragon, with 
seven heads and ten horns. This dragon stood be- 



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fore the woman to devour her child as soon as it was 
born. The woman brought forth a man-child, who 
was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and her 
child was caught up to God and to his throne, and 
the woman took her wings of a great eagle and flew 
into the wilderness, to be fed there a thousand two 
hundred and three-score days, or a time, times, and 
half a time. Now who was this child ? The Rev. 
Mr. Baxter, in his Coming Wonders, under the 
Third Wonder, page 64, writes as follows : " The 
man-child undoubtedly represents a special body of 
Christians, who are to be selected out of, and separ- 
ated from, the general body of Christians, and caught 
up to heaven, while the greater part of Christians 
in general are to be left behind on the earth, and 
very soon afterward to flee into a wilderness for 
1,260 literal days — that is to say, for three and a 
half years during the last antichrist's persecution/ ' 
etc. In due deference to the opinions of this able 
writer, I must beg to differ with him upon this im- 
portant subject, and only criticise his views to elicit 
truth, believing that criticism, when conducted in a 
Christian spirit, is the life of truth. If, in the first 
place, the Church is fitly represented in the fem- 
inine gender, and the greater part of Christians may 
be represented by a woman as flying into a wilder- 
ness, by what use of figures can the man-child be 
made to represent a special and less body of Chris- 
tians? I object to this view of the subject, since I 
can find nowhere in the Sacred Scriptures where the 
nations are to be ruled by any select or special body 
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arises, in the second place, from the fact that I can 
find no place in the sacred volume where any select 
body of Christians are promised a seat at the right 
hand of God upon his throne. This man-child we 
see was to rule all nations with a rod of iron; he 
was to be caught up to God and to his throne ; he 
w T as to be our lawgiver, priest, and king ; he was 
made high-priest, not after the law of a carnal com- 
mandment, but after the power of an endless life. 
Then Paul says, in the 8th chapter of Hebrews, that 
we have such a high-priest who is set on the right 
hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, 
etc. I therefore take this child to mean Christ, the 
Son of God, the Messiah. 

Then, what of the dragon ? John informs us that 
he was fought out of heaven by Michael and his 
angels. He was repulsed immediately after the cru- 
cifixion, resurrection, and coronation of the Messiah, 
since it was by the blood of Christ and the testimony 
of the brethren that he was overcome. 

Sec. 6. Now, what happens next immediately fol- 
lowing? In the next chapter John says he stood 
upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up 
out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, 
and upon his horns ten crowns, etc. Now, who is 
it that cannot see that Caesar, who was the little 
horn that arose up among the ten dragon-horns in 
the days of Alexander's successors, was the one who 
in his magnified proportions arose up at the head of 
the Roman Empire ? Caesar, then, was the beast 
that John saw rise up out of the sea. He arose with 
seven heads and ten horns fully developed. The 



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dragon who had been dethroned gives him his 
power and his seat. And all the world wondered 
after the beast, and there was given unto him a 
mouth speaking great things; and power was given 
unto him to continue forty and two months, or a 
time, times, and half a time. Now, who was to cast 
down the place of the sanctuary, to take away the 
daily sacrifice, and to place the abomination that 
maketh desolate ? Answer : The little horn — the 
king of a fierce countenance — Caesar, the beast, who 
occupied the dragon's seat at the head of the Roman 
Empire — Daniel's willful king, under the appella- 
tion of the king of the south, who was to honor a 
god that his fathers knew nothing about — that is to 
say, the false prophet. Then it was Caesar, who, 
through his lineal descendants, w r as to plant the 
tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the 
glorious holy mountain, and who w T as to rise at the 
end of his time, times, and half a time, and to come 
to his end, and none to help him, after a short space. 
Sec. 7. We then cite you to the 13th chapter of 
Revelation, to the rise of the false prophet. This 
beast exercised all the power of the first beast before 
him, and caused the earth and them which dwell 
therein to worship the first beast, w r hose deadly 
wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, 
so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on 
the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them 
that dwell on the earth by the means of those mira- 
cles which he had power to do in the sight of the 
beast ; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that 
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the wound by a sword, and did live, etc. Now, who 
was this image to be made to ? It was to be made 
to the beast that had the wound by a sword, and 
did live — to the first beast before him, whose deadly 
wound had been healed. Back in the third verse, 
John, in speaking of the beast with seven heads and 
ten horns that arose out of the sea, says : "And I 
saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death ; 
and his deadly wound was healed.' ' Now mark that 
this beast, whose deadly wound had been healed, 
was one of the dragon-heads that appeared upon 
the beast, and was the first beast before the false 
prophet. Then he could be no one else than Nebu- 
chadnezzar, who was the first beast before the false 
prophet. 

Sec. 8. From this exposition, then, we settle the 
question that this image was to be to Nebuchadnez- 
zar. Then this image-beast, when he arose to be 
Nebuchadnezzar restored, must be the beast who 
was in his tree, who was not in his stump, and yet 
was in his branch-roots ; or he must be the image 
to the beast that was wounded by the sword of 
Cyrus, but whose wound was healed by the promise 
of being restored to his kingdom in his branch- 
roots. Then we note that this image beast that was 
to arise under the sixth sound, was to be the beast 
that was and is not, and yet is. We refer the reader 
for the rise of the image-beast to the 13th chapter of 
Revelation. He was to be the eighth head in the 
Eoman Empire, but of the seven heads upon which 
the woman sitteth. Now, if this mystic woman, or 
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prophet, these seven last heads must mean the seven 
Catholic governments upon which she does sit. 
Now, five kings or dynasties of the fragments of the 
Roman Empire having fallen, and the sixth, which 
is the House of Hapsburg, being the only one 
in the direct line of the Caesars that is, and 
Maximilian, being through that house the sev- 
enth Catholic head in the Caesar line of descent, 
must be the eighth in the Roman government, and 
of the seven ; and being in the branch-roots of Ne- 
buchadnezzar, as I showed you he was, he must be 
the old Assyrian king restored, and must arise at 
the end of his seven times, and at the end of the 
three and a half times of the little horn, or the forty 
and two months of the beast. This image-beast, 
then, with his ten democratic clay toes, or horns, 
which are incohesive with the monarchical or iron 
elements of his empire, was to kill the two prophets 
or witnesses at the close of their prophecy. The 
question then arises, Who are these witnesses? 
John says that they are the two olive-trees and the 
two candlesticks standing before the god of the 
earth, (the false prophet.) 

I now cite you to the fourth chapter of Zech- 
ariah : 

CHAPTER IV. 

1 And the angel that talked with me came again, 
and waked me, as a man that is awakened out of his 
sleep, 

2 And said unto me, "What seest thou? And I 
said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of 
gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven 



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lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, 
which are upon the top thereof; 

3 And two olive-trees by it, one upon the right 
side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side 
thereof. 

4 So I answered and spake to the angel that 
talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord ? 

5 Then the angel that talked with me answered 
and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be ? 
And I said, No, my lord. 

6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, 
This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, say- 
ing, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, 
saith the Lord of hosts. 

7 Who art thou, great mountain ? before Zer- 
ubbabel thou shalt become a plain ; and he shall bring 
forth the head-stone thereof with shoutings, crying, 
Grace, grace unto it. 

8 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, 
saying, 

9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the founda- 
tion of this house ; his hands shall also finish it ; 
and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath 
sent me unto you. 

10 For who hath despised the day of small things ? 
for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in 
the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven ; they art 
the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through 
the whole earth. 

11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What 
are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the 
candlestick and upon the left side thereof? 

12 And I answered again, and said unto him, 
What be these two olive branches, which through the 
two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of them- 
selves ? 

13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou 
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14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, 
that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. 

These two olive-trees, then, being the two anointed 
ones that stood prophecying before the god of the 
earth, or the false prophet, through the dark ages 
of his three and a half times, must be Moses and 
Christ, or the Old and the New Testaments. Then, 
after three years and a half, which I make to mean 
about five years, their dead bodies were to revive, 
and ascend up to heaven (the restored Jewish 
heaven) in a cloud, (or under the smoke of battle.) 
Now, this beast, when he arose with his ten dem- 
ocratic clay toes, or horns, which are ten kings 
without a kingdom as yet, was to kill these two 
witnesses. These horns were to make war with the 
lamb, and the lamb was to overcome them. Then, 
under the sixth sound, this image-beast horned these 
two witnesses to death in the street of the great 
city. This beast was to rise out of the bottomless 
pit, and to go into perdition; he was to plant the 
tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the glo- 
rious holy mountain ; his kingdom was to be divided, 
partly strong and partly broken ; his time was to be 
short ; he was to continue but a short space ; he was 
to come to his end, and none to help him. Now, I 
appeal to every rational mind to say if any one could 
now, after the rise and fall of Maximilian's empire, 
give a more minute and graphic description of it 
than was given by the prophets over three thousand 
years ago ! The feet of the great image is then 
smitten, and what must follow next? The balance 



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of this image must be destroyed. Daniel says, 
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without 
hand, which smote the image upon his feet that were 
of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. And 
what next ? Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, 
the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together. 
After this image-beast comes to his end, and none 
to help him, what does Daniel say in the 12th chap- 
ter ? He says, "At that time shall Michael stand up 
— the great prince that standeth for the children of 
thy people ; and there shall be a time of trouble 
such as never was since there was a nation.' ' Now, 
the seventh sound or third woe being close at hand 
— coming quickly — is thus referred to as this time of 
great trouble. Under this last Armageddon battle, 
then, the balance of the great image is to be broken 
in pieces ; the great city is to be divided into three 
parts; and the cities of the nations are to fall. 
Thus you see that the sixth vial of wrath was poured 
out upon the American continent — the United 
States — the great Euphrates — to prepare the way of 
the kings of the East for this last struggle. Then 
the three unclean spirits like frogs went out — not 
out of the United States, but out of the mouth of 
the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and 
out of the mouth of the false prophet — to the kings 
of the east and of the whole world to gather them 
to the battle of that great day of God Almighty ; 
and they gathered them together into a place called 
in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon, etc. We must 
then look to the kings of the East or to Eastern com- 
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struggle, which must end in the mountains of Israel 
— in the land that was always waste — in the land 
that is peopled from every nation — in the land of 
unwalled villages. Between this and the beginning 
of the millennial age of the stone kingdom, in the 
year 1887, this great battle must be fought. Then 
at or about 1873, I shall confidently look for such 
demonstrations in the East as will satisfy the public 
mind as to the correctness of my calculations. 

Sec. 10. We will then devote this section to the 
restoration of the Jews. It is believed by many that 
by the restoration is meant the return of the Jews 
as a nation to their former country. I take a differ- 
ent view of the matter. I think by the restoration 
is meant the spiritual Jew who is not in the circum- 
cision in the flesh, but in the Spirit ; and that this 
restoration will be upon the American continent; 
and I believe that I agree in this with Mr. Baldwin, 
the author of Armageddon. The Jews as a nation, 
while under the law-dispensation, were of the stock 
of Abraham, and God's peculiar people. Christ 
broke down this middle wall of partition between 
the Jew and the Gentile. He received both Jew 
and Gentile into his kingdom upon conditions of the 
faith of the gospel ; and thus they w^ere engrafted 
into the tame olive-tree — that is, into Christ, who 
was the root of David, and from which they were 
to derive their fatness and support. The balance of 
the branches, Paul says, were broken off, but were 
to be grafted in again upon conditions of the faith 
of the gospel. Now, to suppose the Jews in the 
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favor of God without becoming converted to Chris- 
tianity, would be subversion of the universal claims 
and intent of the kingdom of heaven. For God, 
even after their becoming converted to Christianity, 
to collect them in their own or any other country, 
and to claim them as his peculiar people, would be 
to set up again the same middle wall of partition 
that Christ came to break down. Then, if to collect 
the Jews and Gentiles together into one fold upon 
the faith of the gospel is what is meant by the resto- 
ration, it becomes the restoration of the spiritual 
Jew, and the American continent can with as much 
propriety be said to be their own country, and even 
more, than the country of Palestine, since that 
never was in any sense from the days of Moses the 
country of the Gentiles. We cite you to the 88th 
chapter of Ezekiel, from which we extract. Verse 
1, you will see that Ezekiel is called upon to prophesy 
against Gog. Verse 8, after speaking of Gog and 
his bands, Ezekiel says: After many days thou 
shalt be visited : in the latter years thou shalt come 
into the land that is gathered out of many people, 
against the mountains of Israel, which have been 
always w r aste ; but is brought forth out of many 
nations to a people that are at rest — to the land of 
unwalled villages — to take a spoil — to take a prey. 
Thus we see that Gog is here represented as going 
up in the latter days to battle in the mountains of 
Israel. Now, in the first place, the American con- 
tinent was a waste country ; secondly, it was settled 
by a people gathered out of every nation; and, 
thirdly, it is a country of unwalled villages, and its 



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people at rest, dwelling without bars or gates. Now, 
by following Ezekiel through the 38th and 39th 
chapters, it will be seen that Gog and his bands fell 
upon the mountains of Israel. After describing the 
great battle of Gog in the land of Magog, which 
John calls the battle of Armageddon, Ezekiel con- 
tinues, in his 39th chapter : 

21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, 
and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I 
have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon 
them. 

22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am 
the Lord their God from that day and forward. 

23 And the heathen shall know that the house of 
Israel went into captivity for their iniquity : because 
they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face 
from them, and gave them into the hand of their 
enemies ; so fell they all by the sword. 

24 According to their uncleanness and according 
to their transgressions have I done unto them, and 
hid my face from them. 

25 Therefore thus saith the Lord God : Now will I 
bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy 
upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous 
for my holy name ; 

26 After that they have borne their shame, and 
all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed 
against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, 
and none made them afraid. 

27 When I have brought them again from the 
people, and gathered them out of their enemies' 
lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many 
nations; 

28 Then shall they know that lam the Lord their 
God, which caused them to be led into captivity 
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their own land, and have left none of them any 
more there. 

29 Neither will I hide my face any more from 
them ; for I have poured out my Spirit upon the 
house of Israel, saith the Lord God. 

Here, then, we see that after the great battle is 
fought under the sound of the seventh trumpet, 
that God has promised to bring again the captivity of 
Jacob, and so have mercy upon the whole house of 
Israel. Here God has promised to pour out his 
Spirit upon the house of Israel, and to hide his face 
no more from them. This, then, is the restoration. 
Here the millennial age of the stone kingdom begins. 
Here the Ancient of days opens his books, and sets 
his judgment. Here, according to Micah, in his 
4th chapter, in the last days it shall come to pass, 
that many nations shall come, and say, Come, and 
let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the 
house of the God of Jacob ; and he w T ill teach us of 
his ways, and we will walk in his paths ; for the 
law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord 
from Jerusalem. If I am right in my position, then 
in falling back upon the Mosaic law for our national 
government in the restoration, or millennial age, we 
fall back upon the Bible system of slavery. Then 
let those who wish to see the true status of slavery 
consult the 25th chapter of Leviticus. Verse 39 : 
"And if thy brother that dwelleth with thee be 
waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not 
compel him to serve as a bond-servant.' ' Verse 40: 
"But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall 
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"Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which 
thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are 
round about you : of them shall ye buy bondmen 
and bondmaids. ,, Verse 45: "Moreover, of the 
children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, 
of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are 
with you, which they begat in your land ; and they 
shall be your possession.'' Verse 46: "And ye 
shall take them as an inheritance for your children 
after you, to inherit them for a possession : they shall 
be your bondmen for ever; but- over your brethren 
the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over 
another with rigor," etc. Now, it will be observed 
here, that under this code the Jews could not make 
bondmen and bondmaids of their brethren, but 
merely hired servants, who were to go out free with 
their children in the jubilee. Yet they were allowed 
to own a possession in the children of the heathen 
of the surrounding countries, or of the sojourners 
among them ; and these bondmen and bondmaids 
might be purchased with money, and be transmitted 
to their children as an inheritance. Thus we can 
readily perceive wherein American slavery differed 
from the true Bible status. In the first place, under 
the Bible status of slavery, no regard is had to race 
or color; in the second place, the Jew r s were not 
allowed to make bondmen or bondmaids of their 
brethren, while American slavery was confined to 
race and color. In America we held our brethren 
who were free in Christ as a possession, and as an 
inheritance. With this system of slavery incorpo- 
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true Bible status,) it cannot be thought strange that 
it should, in the providence of God, be uprooted 
before the entering in of the millennial age. 

Sec. 11. We now propose in this section to inves- 
tigate the stone kingdom. We cite you to Nebu- 
chadnezzar's dream, as found in the second chapter 
of Daniel. Verse 34 : " Thou sawest till that a stone 
was cut out without hands, which smote the image 
upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake 
them (the feet) to pieces." Verse 35: "And the 
stone that smote the image became a great moun- 
tain, (kingdom or government,) and filled the whole 
earth. " We then look to Daniel's interpretation of 
this dream. After speaking of these four kingdoms 
and the kings that arose, in the 44th verse he says : 
"And in the days of these kings shall the God of 
heaven set up a kingdom, which shall break in pieces 
and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand 
for ever." We first learn that the little stone which 
was first to smite the image upon the feet, and then 
to break it to pieces, was a kingdom ; secondly, we 
learn that it was to be set up by the God of heaven 
in the days of these kings, and not after their king- 
doms were broken to pieces. We next cite you to 
Daniel's vision of these four beasts, or kingdoms, 
in his 7th chapter. Verse 7 : "After this I saw in 
the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, (the 
Eoman Empire,) dreadful and terrible." Verse 9: 
"I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the 
Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as 
snow, etc. : his throne was like the fiery flame, and 
his wheels as burning fire." Verse 13: "I saw in 

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the night visions, (at the rise of the Roman Empire,) 
and behold one like the Son of man came with the 
clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, 
and they brought him near before him. ,, Verse 14 : 
"And there was given unto him dominion, and glory, 
and a kingdom, that should not pass away." Here, 
then, this stone kingdom (the spiritual kingdom of 
Christ) was set up in the beginning of the days of 
the Eoman Empire. This kingdom was to be small 
in its beginning, but was to grow until it became a 
great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Then 
we see with what propriety it could be likened to a 
grain of mustard-seed, or to a little leaven. The 
saints were not fully to possess this kingdom at the 
beginning, but were to be given into the hands of 
the beast for a time, times, and a half a time, and 
until the Ancient of days should set his judgment, 
and open his books, and then they were to possess the 
kingdom. The inner court was to be restored to the 
saints, or to the spiritual Jew, at the end of the three 
and a half times of the beast, but the Ancient of days 
was not to sit until the outer court was changed 
after the last great battle. Then the millennial age 
of a thousand years will begin ; the Jew will be fully 
restored, and the saints will possess the kingdom. 
Now, what was it that was at work all this time in 
subduing and destroying these worldly kingdoms ? 
It was the word of God, that was seen ride out upon 
the white horse at the opening of the first seal— it 
was the great power of God put forth through his 
word — it was the same that was followed by the 
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and last great battle, which had written upon his 
vesture a name, King of kings and Lord of lords — 
the Ancient of days — the God of heaven. This 
word of God, then, which is the great power of God, 
becomes the true source of light in the millennial 
age. This light is supplied from the two olive-trees 
through the golden pipes, and shines out from the 
golden candlestick with his bowl and seven lamps, 
as described by Zechariah, in his 4th chapter. 

Sec. 12. Introductory to a chapter upon the organ- 
ization and history of the Church of Christ, in con- 
trast with the organization of the false prophet, 
which I design to offer in my second edition of this 
work, I devote this section to the spirituality of the 
kingdom of Christ. When Jesus was arraigned be- 
fore Pilate, he informed him that his kingdom was 
not of this world, otherwise his servants would defend 
it. John xviii. 36. "We are informed again by Paul, 
in 1st Corinthians xv. 50, that flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God. We will here intro- 
duce to our readers the 8th and 9th chapters of Paul's 
Epistle to the Hebrews : 

CHAPTER VIII. 

1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is 
the sum : We have such a high-priest, who is set on 
the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the 
heavens ; 

2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true 
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 

3 For every high-priest is ordained to offer gifts 
and sacrifices : wherefore it is of necessity that this 
man have somewhat also to offer. 

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priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts 
according to the law : 

5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of 
heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God 
when he was about to make*the tabernacle: for, 
See, saith he, that thou make all things according to 
the pattern showed to thee in the mount. 

6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent 
ministrj^, by how much also he is the mediator of a 
better covenant, which was established upon better 
promises. 

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, 
then should no place have been sought for the 
second. 

8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, 
the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a 
new covenant with the house of Israel and with the 
house of Judah. 

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with 
their fathers, in the day when I took them by the 
hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt ; because 
they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded 
them not, saith the Lord. 

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with 
the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; 
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them 
in their hearts ; and I will be to them a God, and 
they shall be to me a people; 

11 And they shall not teach every man his neigh- 
bor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the 
Lord : for aU shall know me, from the least to the 
greatest. 

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteous- 
ness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remem- 
ber no more. 

13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made 
the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth 
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CHAPTER IX 



1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances^ 
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 

2 For there was ^a tabernacle made; the first 
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the 
shewbread ; which is called the sanctuary. 

3 And after the second vail, the tabernacle which 
is called the holiest of all ; 

4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of 
the covenant overlaid round about with gold 
wherein was the golden pot that had manna, 
and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of 
the covenant; 

5 And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing 
the mercy-seat ; of which we cannot now speak par- 
ticularly. 

6 Now when these things were thus ordained, 
the priests went always into the first tabernacle, ac- 
complishing the service of God. 

7 But into the second went the high-priest alone 
once every year, not without blood, which he offered 
for himself, and for the errors of the people : 

8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way 
into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, 
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing : 

9 Which was a figure for the time then present, 
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that 
could not make him that did the service perfect, as 
pertaining to the conscience ; 

10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and 
divers washings,, and carnal ordinances, imposed on 
them until the time of reformation. 

11 But Christ being come a high-priest of good 
things to come, by a greater and more perfect taber- 
nacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of 
this building ; 

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by his own blood he entered in once into the holy 
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the 
ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth 
to the purifying of the flesh ; 

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who 
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without 
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works 
to serve the living God ? 

15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the 
new testament, that by means of death, for the re- 
demption of the transgressions that were under the 
first testament, they which are called might receive 
the promise of eternal inheritance. 

16 For where a testament is, there must also of 
necessity be the death of the testator. 

17 For a testament is of force after men are dead : 
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator 
liveth. 

18 Whereupon neither the first testament was ded- 
icated without blood. 

19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to 
all the people according to the law, he took the 
blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet 
wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and 
all the people, 

20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament 
which God hath enjoined unto you. 

21 Moreover he sprinkled likewise with blood 
both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the min- 
istry. 

22 And almost all things are by the law purged 
with blood ; and without shedding of blood is no 
remission. 

23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of 
things in the heavens should be purified w T ith these ; 
but the heavenly things themselves with better sacri- 
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24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places 
made with hands, ivhich are the figures of the true ; 
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence 
of God for us : 

25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as 
the high-priest entereth into the hoty place every 
year with blood of others ; 

26 For then must he often have suffered since the 
foundation of the world : but now once in the end 
of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by 
the sacrifice of himself. 

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, 
but after this the judgment : 

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of 
many ; and unto them that look for him shall he 
appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 

From the preceding chapters we see that the king- 
dom of Christ was based upon a new covenant made 
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 
not according to the covenant made with their 
fathers in the day when he took them out of the 
land of Egypt. The first tabernacle, which was 
a figure for the time then present, in which were 
offered both gifts and sacrifices, could not make him 
that did the service perfect as pertaining to the con- 
science, which stood only in meats and drinks, and 
divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed 
upon them until the time of reformation. But 
Christ being come a high-priest, is not entered into 
the holy places of the first tabernacle, which was 
made with hands, but into heaven itself, now to 
appear in the presence of God for us. Again, the 
kingdom of God does not consist in meats and 
drinks, but in righteousness, peace, and joy in the 



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Holy Ghost. There are, then, two aspects in which 
this kingdom is presented to us. The first carries with 
it the idea of space, or boundary, of king, of laws, and 
of subjects. Although this kingdom was small in its 
beginning, it possessed all of these requisites, and 
was something into which we might enter ; in proof 
of which I cite you to Matthew, 16th chapter, 18th 
and 19th verses : "And I say also unto thee, that 
thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my 
Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail 
against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of 
the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt 
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven ; and what- 
soever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in 
heaven." And again, John iii. 5 : " Jesus answered, 
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be 
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into 
the kingdom of God." The second aspect in which 
this kingdom is presented to us, is that of subsisting 
within us. In Luke xvii. 20, 21, when it was de- 
manded of Jesus when the kingdom of God should 
come, he answ r ered them and said, " The kingdom 
of God cometh not w r ith observation : neither shall 
they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for, behold the 
kingdom of God is within you." John the Baptist, 
Jesus himself, the twelve, and the seventy, all 
preached, not that the kingdom was in, but that it 
was just at hand. Jesus told his disciples that if he 
went not away, the Comforter would not come ; but 
if he went away, that he would send the Comforter 
which the world could not receive. Then Christ 
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they were endowed with power from On High. We 
next cite to the second chapter of the Acts of the 
Apostles, where this kingdom was set up, and to 
where Peter, to whom the keys had been given, 
opened the door and proclaimed the law of remis- 
sion : 

CHAPTER II. 

1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, 
they were all with one accord in one place. 

2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven 
as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the 
house where they were sitting. 

3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues 
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit 
gave them utterance. 

5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, 
devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 

6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multi- 
tude came together, and were confounded, because 
that every man heard them speak in his own lan- 
guage. 

7 And they were all amazed and marveled, say- 
ing one to another, Behold, are not all these which 
speak Galileans ? 

8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, 
wherein we were born ? 

9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the 
dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappa- 
docia, in Pontus, and Asia, 

10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia,* in Egypt, and in the 
parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Eome, 
Jews and proselytes, 

11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak 
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12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, 
saying one to another, What meaneth this ? 

13 Others mocking said, These men are full of 
new wine. 

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted 
up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, 
and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known 
unto you, and hearken to my words : 

15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, see- 
ing it is but the third hour of the day. 

16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet 
Joel; 

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, 
saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all 
flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall proph- 
esy, and your young men shall see visions, and your 
old men shall dream dreams: 

18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens 
I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and 
they shall prophesy : 

19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and 
signs in the earth beneath ; blood, and fire, and va- 
por of smoke : 

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the 
moon into blood, before that great and notable day 
of the Lord come : 

21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall 
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 

22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of 
Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by 
miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by 
him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 

23 Him, being delivered by the determinate 
counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, 
and by wicked hands have crucified and slain : 

24 "Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the 
pains of death : because it was not possible that he 
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25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw 
the Lord always before my face ; for he is on my 
right hand, that I should not be moved : 

26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue 
was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in 
hope : 

27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, 
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see cor- 
ruption. 

28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of 
life ; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy coun- 
tenance. 

29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto 
you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead 
and buried, and his sepulcher is w T ith us unto this 
day. 

30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that 
God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the 
fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he w r ould 
raise up Christ to sit on his throne ; 

31 He, seeing this before, spake of the resurrec- 
tion of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, nei- 
ther his flesh did see corruption. 

32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all 
are witnesses. 

33 Therefore being by the right hand of God ex- 
alted, and having received of the Father the promise 
of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which 
ye now see and hear. 

34 For David is not ascended into the heavens ; 
but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, 
Sit thou on my right hand, 

35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool. 

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know 
assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, 
whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 

37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked 
in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest 



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of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall 
we do? 

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be 
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus 
Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive 
the gift of the Holy Ghost. 

39 For the promise is unto you, and to your chil- 
dren, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the 
Lord our God shall call. 

40 And with many other words did he testify and 
exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward 
generation. 

41 Then they that gladly received his word were 
baptized ; and the same day there were added unto 
them about three thousand souls. 

42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' 
doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, 
and in prayers. 

43 And fear came upon every soul; and many 
wonders and signs were done by the apostles. 

44 And all that believed were together, and had 
all things common : 

45 And sold their possessions and goods, and 
parted them to all men, as every man had need. 

46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in 
the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, 
did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of 
heart, 

47 Praising God, and having favor with all the 
people. And the Lord added to the church daily 
such as should be saved. 

Here, then, stands a spiritual kingdom, with 
Christ as our king and lawgiver — the great high- 
priest of the new covenant, and a door opened by 
Peter that all men may enter into it upon his condi- 
tions. The Holy Spirit fills this kingdom as fully 



SU PPL EM EN T. 173 

as the atmosphere fills the universe. Within this 
kingdom the disciple breathes the Holy Spirit as 
naturally as without we breathe the vital air. 
All men, then, by complying with the conditions 
offered by Peter, may enter into this kingdom of 
righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, or 
it may subsist within them by their obedience to its 
laws. 

Acts iv. 11. After speaking of Jesus of Nazareth, it 
is said that this is the stone which was set at nought 
by you builders, which is become the head of the 
corner. Neither is there salvation in any other ; for 
there is none other name under heaven given among 
men, whereby we must be saved. Luke, 1st chap- 
ter, beginning at the 32d verse, in speaking of 
Jesus, says: "He shall be great, and shall be 
called the Son of the Highest ; and the Lord God 
shall give unto him the throne of his father David ; 
and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever: 
and of his kingdom there shall be no end." Acts 
of the Apostles, 15th chapter, beginning at the 13th 
verse : "And after they had held their peace, James 
answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto 
me : Simeon hath declared how God at the first did 
visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for 
his name. And to this agree the words of the 
prophets ; as it is written, After this I will return, 
and will build again the tabernacle of David, which 
is fallen down: that the residue of men might 
seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom 
my name is called, saith the Lord," etc. Luke, 2d 
chapter, beginning at the 25th verse : "And, behold, 



174 SUPPLEMENT. 

there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was 
Simeon ; and the same man was just and devout, 
waiting for the consolation of Israel ; and the Holy 
Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto 
him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, 
before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came 
by the Spirit into the temple ; and when the parents 
brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the 
custom of the law, then took he him up in his 
arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest 
thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy 
word ; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which 
thou hast prepared before the face of all people ; a 
light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy 
people Israel," etc. 

Thus we see that the house or tabernacle of David 
was rebuilt in Christ. Christ, the root and offspring 
of David according to the flesh, becomes the head 
of this spiritual kingdom which was based upon the 
new covenant, and which does not consist in meats 
and drinks, but in righteousness, peace, and joy in 
the Holy Ghost. To make this kingdom of Christ 
a political kingdom upon earth, would be to destroy 
his priesthood, since Paul says, in his Epistle to the 
Hebrews, viii. 4: "For if he were on earth, he should 
not be a priest/' He was a high-priest, set upon 
the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the 
heavens ; a minister of the sanctuary, and of the 
true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not 
man. 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Preface 3 

Introduction 5 

Mode of Reading the Prophecies 7 

CHAPTER I. 

Section 1. — Ezekiel's Cherubim 9 

2. — Nebuchadnezzar's Great Image 12 

3.— The Great Tree 16 

4. — Daniel's Four Beasts 20 

5.— The He-goat 23 

6.— The two Great Wonders 2d 

7.— The Little Horn . 27 

CHAPTER II. 

Section 1. — The Rise of the Beast 34 

2.— The Rise of the False Prophet 37 

3. — The Rise of the Image-beast with Seven heads and 

Ten Image-horns 40 

" 4.— The Mystic Woman and the Great City 41 

CHAPTER III. 

Section 1. — John's View of the Cherubim 48 

" 2. — The Lion of the Tribe of Judah prevails to open the 

Book and to loose the Seven Seals thereof 53 

3. — The opening of the Seven Seals in order 53 

i 

CHAPTER IV. 

Section 1. — The seven angels with seven vials of God's wrath... 57 

" 2. — The three woes 60 

3. — The sixth sound of the trumpet, or late war 65 

4.— The third woe 74 

5.— The Armageddon battle 81 

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INDEX 



CHAPTER V. 

PAGE 

Section 1. — The two great national sins of the Jews, and the 

rise of the new city 89 

11 2. — The two great codes of laws by Moses and Christ — 

the outer and inner courts \ 92 

" 3. — God's people called to come out of Babylon 95 

CHAPTER VI. 

Section 1. — Thoughts relative to the beginning of the Christian 

era, and King Herod the Great 97 

2.— Herod the tetrarch 101 

CHAPTER VII. 

Section 1. — Introduction to the times 103 

11 2. — Mode of count by weeks 106 

• 3. — Table of Sabbath-time, and the shortening of the 

days for the elect's sake 122 

" 4. — The twelve hundred and ninety days of Daniel 127 

" 5. — The devil bound a thousand years 133 

" 6. — Beginning of the millennium 134 



INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT. 



CHAPTER I. 

Section 1. — Introduction 139 

2. — Review of the Image 140 

3. — Review of the Dragon 141 

4. — Review of the Little Horn 142 

5. — Review of the Woman and Man-child 147 

6. — Review of the Beast 149 

7. — Review of the False Prophet 150 

8. — Review of the Image-beast.... , 151 

9. — Review of Armageddon battle and Millennium 154 

10. — Review of the Restoration of the Jews 156 

11. — Review of the Stone Kingdom 161 

12. — Review of the Spirituality of this Kingdom 163 



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